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fieldlore

fieldlore noun: knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.

Noun

fieldlore (uncountable)

  1. Knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
    • And he often wrote long formless pieces full of place-names and of fieldlore charmingly expressed, songs uttering his love and his pathetic joy in retrospection, poems mingling the two elements.2002, Mark Storey, John Clare: The Critical Heritage - Page 317

Forms of fieldlore

alternative formfield-lore
alternative formfield lore

Origin of fieldlore

From field + lore.

Questions about fieldlore

What does fieldlore mean?
Fieldlore means knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
What part of speech is fieldlore?
Fieldlore is a noun.

Words near fieldlore in the dictionary

  1. fieldlike
  2. fieldline
  3. fieldlines
  4. fieldling
  5. fieldlings
  6. fieldlore
  7. fieldman
  8. fieldmap
  9. fieldmaps
  10. fieldmark
  11. fieldmarks

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