Definitions

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  • noun A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.

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  • noun a field planted with wheat

Etymologies

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wheat +‎ field

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Examples

  • On the farther side of the wheatfield was the high ridge on which the enemy's cavalry was formed, and beyond which his batteries were posted; and it extended across the road into the fields on the right, but was wooded on the left of the road.

    Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States, 1912

  • He could swear that Pike had often visited him -- that is, his wheatfield and corral -- after dark, but a daylight visit from a

    Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881

  • Were there three sad tigers on a trash pile in a wheatfield that were miraculously evaded by chance?

    Retablos.....unique art form 2009

  • Were there three sad tigers on a trash pile in a wheatfield that were miraculously evaded by chance?

    Retablos.....unique art form 2009

  • Were there three sad tigers on a trash pile in a wheatfield that were miraculously evaded by chance?

    Retablos.....unique art form 2009

  • Were there three sad tigers on a trash pile in a wheatfield that were miraculously evaded by chance?

    Retablos.....unique art form 2009

  • On some wheatfield gently rolling in the shadows of the still standing WTC towers.

    On agro 2008

  • Cuz Jake is a homeschooled Amish shut-in from the wrong side of the wheatfield who, until arriving in Orlando, had never even talked to a non-relative.

    WILL MMA SAVE THE REC CENTER? 2008

  • If they meet you in darkness, or here, half hidden in a bloody wheatfield, then they are not declared for you.

    The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

  •             It was supposed to stay a shitty question, lost in a wheatfield two hours west of Salina.

    Declarative Sentences 2009

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