Fielding
['fiːldɪŋ] or ['fildɪŋ]
['fildɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field.
(noun.) English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754).
Checker: Percy--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Field
(n.) The act of playing as a fielder.
Editor: Myra
Examples
- Fielding tells us that man is fire, and woman tow, and the Prince of Darkness sets a light to 'em. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We find such active-minded English writers as Defoe (1659-1731) and Fielding (1707-54) deeply exercised by this problem. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They say he is like Fielding: they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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