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Answer for the clue "Area furthest from the stumps ", 8 letters:
outfield

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball softball English) The region of the field between the infield and the outer fence. 2 (context cricket English) The region of the field roughly outside of the infield or the wicket-keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Outfield may refer to: Outfield , a portion of the field of play in certain sports The Outfield , a rock band

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Field \Field\ (f[=e]ld), n. [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. f["a]lt, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.] Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the area of a baseball playing field beyond the lines connecting the bases [ant: baseball diamond ]

Usage examples of outfield.

She had an aluminium bat in her hands and she was knocking fly balls and grounders to half a dozen preadolescent boys, arrayed throughout the infield and outfield, playing a game called five hundred.

I had the arm and the mineral patience of the daydreamer and I roamed the outfield green, lamb happy and nervous when southpaws came to the plate.

The coach had to explain several times to his new star that iron legs are crucial to hitting, pitching, baserunning, making long throws from the outfield, and surviving the late innings of the second game of a doubleheader with a thin roster.

Cuthbert, Senserderfer and Heubel in the outfield, and Bechtel and Pratt, substitutes.

The grounds crew would start pulling down the outfield fence and attacking the job of girding the stadium for the long, cold months when the Browns were the sole tenant.

Johnny on all fours and Mary sucking him and running her fingers down the thigh backs and light over the outfields of the ball park.

Billy and Lenny lived together and played side by side in minor league outfields for nearly two years, beginning in 1984.

It was just a ballyard, like hundreds of other minor-league parks he’d been through: covered grandstand, bleachers out in back of left and right, advertisements pasted on the boards of the outfield fences—faded, peeling, tattered advertisements now, because nobody in Hot Springs was advertising much of anything these days.

He watched without saying anything more, while Boley struck out the first man with three sizzling curves, right on schedule, and then turned around and yelled something at the outfield.

They were nearing the left-field line, having traversed most of the outfield, when Jake broke the silence.

Behind the counter of the kitchen the non-coms, the jovial first sergeant, and the business-like sergeant who looked like a preacher, and the wrinkled-faced corporal who had been on the Red Sox outfield, could be seen eating steak.

Eddie could remember the evening a long, slow fly ball had been hit directly to Belch's position in the outfield - Belch didn't even have to move.

Butch just shrugged, but the sun-drenched grass and the signs advertising Knickerbocker Beer on the outfield fences and the crowd all crazy and the Belgorvian ball-machines glinting in the sunlight and the flag waving over the grandstand behind home plate and the faint odor of buttered popcorn drifting out to center and Mr.

Just then Molly Conklin opened the little door in the right field corner of the outfield wall, and trotting in from that direction were nine new American players with funny, little pancake ballgloves and hats that looked like they'd been sat on.

Then their diamonds have just over normal-sized infields, but the outfields have to be huge.