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Off track
Answer for the clue "Off track ", 6 letters:
afield
Alternative clues for the word afield
Word definitions for afield in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. 1 away (from the home or starting point, physical or conceptual); usually preceded by far (or farther, further). 2 On the field.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES farther afield (= a greater distance away ) ▪ Most of them were locals, but some had come from farther afield . further afield (= further away from where you are now ) ▪ If you want to go further afield, there are ...
Usage examples of afield.
So he went to his place and fell asleep and slept long, while the women went down to acre and meadow, or saw to the baking of bread or the sewing of garments, or went far afield to tend the neat and the sheep.
Ye say, it shall soon pass over and we shall fare afield And reap the wheat with the war-sword and winnow in the shield.
Everywhere they saw men and women working afield, but no houses of worthy yeomen or vavassors, or cots of good husbandmen.
I have told thee, that here be no freemen who work afield, nay, nor villeins either.
Waned the day and I hied me afield, and thereafter I sat with the mighty when daylight was done, But with great men beside me, midst high-hearted laughter, I deemed me of all men the gainfullest one.
And I am thy champion and the fierce warrior afield, and that also is for thine helping.
I was especially happy whenever I was sent afield to take the place of some peasant shepherd who was ill or drunk or otherwise incapacitated, for I enjoyed being by myself in the green pastures, and the herding of sheep is no backbreaking job.
Numerous monks and peasants working afield goggled as I flashed past them, and Brother Vitalis was sweeping the dorter when I lunged in there.
But he is the man I send afield for my raw material, and he has always been able to find for me the mud of the slimiest consistency and most nauseous stench.
Frido and I went farther afield, now on horseback, and now along the shores of the Amber Coast.
Sirius could now travel far afield and doctor sick sheep without Pugh having to accompany him.
Most of his journeys were local or to one of the airports, but he had some customers who went further afield for various reasons, though they travelled in his Vauxhall saloon, not this utilitarian van.
Yet, as years went on and the boy still drew, even going further afield on Sunday tramping to the lead mines at Alston or Allendale, the man recognized that the boy had something that should be cultivated.
Either that or they are going farther afield in the back of one of the wagons.
Any picture would have been acceptable to them, and that day many of them even went far afield to obtain a copy of that newspaper.