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Grain field   /greɪn fild/   Listen
Grain field

noun
1.
A field where grain is grown.  Synonym: grainfield.






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"Grain field" Quotes from Famous Books



... been dealing hitherto with suppositions the materials of which are furnished by everyday experience, not with mere a priori assumptions. Our hypothetical solitary shepherd with his flock, or the solitary farmer with his grain field, are mere bits of such experience, cut out, as it were, for easy study. Still borrowing from daily experience, let us suppose that either sheep-owner or farmer, for any reason that may be imagined, desires the ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... into the young, green crops, and as they settled down they ate the tiny shoots and leaves to the ground. More came, and more, and ever more, and as they came they spread out till they covered a big corner of the grain field. And still more and more, till it was like an army of black, hopping, crawling crickets, streaming down the side of the ...
— Stories to Tell to Children • Sara Cone Bryant



Words linked to "Grain field" :   field, grainfield, cornfield, wheatfield, wheat field, corn field



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