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/ˈaʊtfˌild/ Listen

noun

Outfield n.

Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1. (Scot.)

A field beyond, or separated from, the inclosed land about the homestead; an uninclosed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively. "The great outfield of thought or fact."

(Baseball) The part of the baseball field beyond the diamond, or infield. It is occupied by the fielders, and usually considered as divided into left field, center field, and right field, named as viewed from home plate.

(Cricket) The part of the field farthest from the batsman.

verb

outfield v. t. (Baseball) To surpass in performing the tasks of fielding; as, both teams got ten hits, but the Red Sox outfielded the Yankees.

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"Outfield" Quotes from Famous Books

... his advice, and each evening before the day of the match saw the Billabong contingent of the Cunjee eleven hard at work on a level stretch of ground close to the homestead; while Norah was generally to be found making herself useful in the outfield. Her sex did not hinder the daughter of the house from being able to return balls with force and directness, and when, as a reward for her aid, she was given a few minutes with the bat, to carefully regulated bowling from Wally, Norah's cup of joy was full. ...

— Mates at Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... stop tomorrow, Jack. Bob Hart brought me in from the outfield and put Jack Binns out there. He says Tom can play better with the sun in his eyes than anyone on the team. I missed a catch the last game we had because ...

— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland

... constructing a plough. The two main cupples of the building he made of huge trees, dug out of a neighbouring morass; they resembled somewhat the beams of a large sloop reversed. The stones he carried from the outfield heath on a sledge; the interstices in the walls he caulked with moss; the roof he covered with sods. The entire erection was his workmanship, from foundation to ridge. And such, in brief, was the history of all those ...

— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... Doc, who's a chesty, short-legged gent with a dome half under glass,—you know, sort of a skinned diamond with turf outfield effect,—he whirls on me accusin'. "Young man," says he, "do I understand that you had ...

— On With Torchy • Sewell Ford

... warming up as if he expected to go into the box. He had cast aside cap and sweater, and was pitching all kinds of shoots to a young chap he had found willing to catch him. Woods was batting to the infield, but somebody was needed to give the outfield some work. Merriwell was called ...

— Frank Merriwell's Cruise • Burt L. Standish