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Fielding   /fˈildɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Fielding  n.  (Ball Playing) The act of playing as a fielder.


verb
Field  v. t.  (Ball Playing) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.


Field  v. i.  (past & past part. fielded; pres. part. fielding)  
1.
To take the field. (Obs.)
2.
(Ball Playing) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.





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"Fielding" Quotes from Famous Books



... Thomas conducted the Academy performance, at which the cast was as follows: Lakme, Pauline L'Allemand; Nilakantha, Alonzo E. Stoddard; Gerald, William Candidus; Frederick, William H. Lee; Ellen, Charlotte Walker; Rose, Helen Dudley Campbell; Mrs. Bentson, May Fielding; Mallika, Jessie Bartlett Davis; ...
— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... wonderful genius, needs expurgating if one would read him aloud comfortably to a mixed audience. And these are the shining stars. When we drop below them, the literature of their time becomes nearly impossible to read. Fielding and Smollett and Stern helped to build up the English novel, but the stories they tell speak of the grossness of their time in language that is unmistakable. We are by no means clean to-day. A fair proportion ...
— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker
... vii., pp. 550. 631.).—I do not remember any earlier use of this word than in Fielding's Amelia, 1751. Its origin is involved in obscurity: but may it not be a corruption of the Latin ambages, or the singular ablative ambage? which signifies quibbling, subterfuge, and that kind of conduct which is generally supposed to constitute humbug. It is very possible that it may ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 • Various
... manuscript I had prepared was brought forth, was conspicuously energetic in daubing with hot mush from a huge wooden spoon the sheets I had composed with much painstaking. The grand event in the "Pudding" of our time was the performance of Fielding's extravaganza of Tom Thumb. I think it was the club's first attempt at an operatic performance, and it was prepared with great care. I suppose I am to-day the only survivor among those who took part, and it is a sombre pleasure to recall the old-time frolic. The great promoter of the undertaking ...
— The Last Leaf - Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America - and Europe • James Kendall Hosmer
... and Grandma Deane, and little Freddie James, and Mrs. Hoover, and Dan'l Fielding. You see that's quite a bunch, and it will take a big lot of flowers to go around. I'll tell 'em ...
— The Lilac Lady • Ruth Alberta Brown


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