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Definition of Misfield
1. Verb. (cricket) To field the ball clumsily or ineptly, especially when this results in the batsman scoring another run ¹
2. Noun. (cricket) A failure to field the ball properly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misfield
1. to field badly [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfield
Literary usage of Misfield
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Churches and Ministers, and of Franklin Association in by Theophilus Packard (1854)
"18, 1834, and after a ministry of about three years and a half was dismissed,
May 16, 1838. Mr. Holmes was born in misfield, Yorkshire, England, in 1768; ..."
2. 1673-1899: History of the Town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, which by John Montague Smith, Henry Walbridge Taft, Abbie Talitha Montague (1899)
"was son of Rev. Benjamin Holmes, a dissenting mi.nister, who was b. 1768, in
misfield, Yorkshire, England, and was for a time settled in Montague. He was b. ..."
3. Orderly Book of Capt. Ichabod Norton of Col. Mott's Regiment of Connecticut by Ichabod Norton, Robert O. Bascom (1898)
"... misfield; countersign, herd; field officer of the day tomorrow is Col. Swift;
officer of the works, Capt. ..."
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