Meaning of fieldling | Babel Free

Definitions

A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.

rare

Examples

“She was herself a fieldling, while her husband, for all his tweeds, looked pasted on, like a montage scissored from some other picture. As for Martha, she strode ahead of them, unmistakably a career woman, educated at Bryn Mawr, who had [...]”

“Many of the abandoned fieldlings find in youth gangs a sense of belonging and power, thus getting themselves entangled in the nerfarious drug-trade for livelihood.”

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