Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A field where grain is grown.
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- noun A
field wheregrain isgrown .
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- noun a field where grain is grown
- noun a field where grain is grown
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Examples
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Yes, the 25/06 is my favorite beanfield, clearcut, grainfield rifle.
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If shooting a prepared or harvested grainfield try and observe the field before the season opens.
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Yes, the 25/06 is my favorite beanfield, clearcut, grainfield rifle.
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If shooting a prepared or harvested grainfield try and observe the field before the season opens.
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If you're scouting a grainfield in the evening, stay until ducks or geese leave at dark.
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Same goes for italian Pasta. the good stuff is made from semolina, not highly refined flour - you can literally smell the grainfield in the pasta pot. it has the colour of straw, is a little rough in texture and absolutely beautiful.
Sweet Deception 2006
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Or even better, find a cut grainfield where pigeons are feeding.
Four Tips to Improve Your Shot at Doves, from Shotguns Columnist Phil Bourjaily 2006
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In fact, as far as scenery goes I prefer a farmed landscape to conventionally beautiful mountain or forest -- albeit a moderately hilly one is preferable to dead-flat, and one with vineyards and orchards to one that's all grainfield.
Kansas. Nebraska. Walter Jon Williams 2007
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On opening day of the rifle season, Tom and I were hidden in a haystack blind, the grainfield flaring in the sunset, when whitetails danced out to feed.
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The chestnut whuffed and sidestepped away from the road and into the stubbled grainfield, backing away from the hedgerow that seemed to start with the scrubby willows.
The Order War Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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