Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A field of wheat.
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Examples
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In its 10-point plan, the State Council said the government will spend small amounts, such as 10 yuan per mu, or about $2 per hectare, in subsidies for wheat-field irrigation, as well as allocate just over $1 billion for infrastructure to address the drought conditions.
China Lifts Farm Subsidies James T. Areddy 2011
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He wore a surcoat of wheat-field tan, a vest and breeches of mud brown.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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What follows are the well-known and popular wheat-field paintings, which culminate in "The Wheat Field Behind Saint Paul's Hospital with a Reaper" from 1889.
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A hacker mowed a program into his wheat-field, creating a Semacode app that says "Hello, World."
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The massive, mighty trees were waving like a wheat-field in an autumn gale in England, and I dare say a field mouse in a wheat-field in a gale would have heard much the same uproar.
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Siegmund waited, through the meadows, for the next wheat-field.
The Trespasser 2003
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The latter is the tint prevailing in Midian, often suggesting the careless European wheat-field, in which
The Land of Midian 2003
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Away aloft, so high that a backward tilt of the head was necessary, the cloud-bank was edged with light as ineffably variable as the shadows over a wheat-field on a breezy day.
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Through the wheat-field; that was on the back side of the village, next to the corn and away from the bluff.
Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997
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The eyes, now conning Cadfael rather warily over the rim of the cup, were as radiantly blue as Cadfael remembered them from Saint Giles, like cornflowers in a wheat-field.
The Leper of Saint Giles Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1981
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