field man

A peasant, a boor. "He statutis and ordanis, that field - men quha has mair nor four ky, sall, for thair awin sustentatioun, tak and re ave land is fra thair maister is, and till and saw the sam in."- Stat . Alex . II . in Balfour's Pract ., p. 536. IMG:content-1598.png:[blocks in formation] Zool .: A name given to several species of rodents which live in the fields, where they burrow in banks, . Mus sylvatic us is the Long-tailed Field-mouse, Arvicola agrestis the Short-tailed Field-mouse or Field-vole (q. v.).