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open field

noun

Football.
  1. any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.


open-field

adjective

  1. prenominal medieval history of or denoting the system in which an arable area was divided into unenclosed strips, esp cultivated by different tenants
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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"You've got a nice open field at the back that's not going to get built on. It's a lovely location, and there's Yeadon Tarn just down the road. You can't beat it, living here."

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Jones added a try before the break, giving Scotland a 10-7 lead, as Kinghorn and Van der Merwe combined once more, finding angles, offloads and open field out wide.

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“The open field about the grounds were simply black with machines parked together in such a hopeless mass as to make it seem impossible for one ever to find his own once more,” The New York Times reported.

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Last January, Alec Musser of “All My Children” died by suicide at 50 and Robyn Bernard, who played Terry Brock on “General Hospital” in the 1980s, was found dead in March in an open field in Riverside County at age 64.

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The force of the impact brought their heads together and Lawrence, despite having open field in front of him, slowly went to ground holding his face.

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