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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fielder
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
center
▪ The center fielder ran out, his head up.
▪ But the Sox are balking at giving up two center fielders.
▪ A great at-bat by Manny Ramirez and a poor play by center fielder Brady Anderson had a lot to do with it.
right
▪ They wanted Mark Whiten to be the right fielder, and I got to play.
▪ The 5-foot-10 right fielder said he weighs 227.
▪ Davis was a late-inning defensive replacement for right fielder Geronimo Berroa and batted once, drawing an intentional walk.
■ VERB
leave
▪ Will my cover-drive still leave the off-side fielders rooted helplessly to the ground as the ball speeds to the boundary?
▪ A year ago, Billy Ashley entered spring training as the Dodgers' starting left fielder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A year ago, Billy Ashley entered spring training as the Dodgers' starting left fielder.
▪ He was the sort of fielder who never runs but is always there when the ball lands.
▪ Hit second ball made four - the fielders showing the minimum inclination to intercept it.
▪ Left fielder Billy Ashley experienced pain in his left hamstring Saturday while running out of the box.
▪ Montgomerie looked the sharpest fielder on a miserable day when tea was delivered to the fielders after one hour's play.
▪ Murray refuses to be intimidated by the ring of fielders.
▪ The center fielder ran out, his head up.
▪ They wanted Mark Whiten to be the right fielder, and I got to play.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fielder

Fielder \Field"er\, n. (Ball Playing) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fielder

early 14c., "one who works in a field," agent noun from field (n.). Sporting sense is from 1832 (in cricket; by 1868 in baseball). Earlier in cricket was simply field (1825) and fieldsman (1767).

Wiktionary
fielder

n. 1 (context cricket English) A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring. 2 (context baseball softball English) A defensive player in the field.

WordNet
fielder
  1. n. a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat

  2. a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting [syn: fieldsman]

Wikipedia
Fielder

Fielder may refer to:

  • Fielding (cricket), the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman
  • Fielders, any of various baseball positions including:
  • Fielder railway station, Melbourne
Fielder (surname)

Fielder is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Albert Fielder (1889-1947), English cricketer
  • Alvin Fielder (born 1935), American jazz drummer
  • Arthur Fielder (1877-1949), English cricket fast bowler
  • Cecil Fielder (born 1963), former professional baseball player
  • George Bragg Fielder (1842-1906), former congressman from New Jersey
  • Goodman Fielder, food product distributor in Australia and New Zealand
  • Guyle Fielder (born 1930), former professional ice hockey player
  • Harry Fielder (born 1940), English actor
  • James Fairman Fielder (1867-1954), former democratic governor of New Jersey
  • Jim Fielder (born 1947), former bassist for Blood, Sweat, and Tears
  • John Fielder (born 1950), American landscape photographer and nature writer
  • Lauren Fielder, former co-host of GameSpot TV
  • Nathan Fielder (born 1983), Canadian writer, comedian, and film maker
  • Prince Fielder (born 1984), major league baseball player
  • Richard Fielder (1758-1826), English professional cricketer
  • Walter Fielder (1899-1968), English cricketer

Usage examples of "fielder".

Gore was a newcomer in the League ranks, he hailing from New Bedford, but he soon made for himself a name, being a first-class fielder and a batsman that was away above the average, as is shown by his record made in after years.

As a thrower, fielder and base runner he was in the first class, while as a batsman he was only fair.

As a fielder he was very fair, and as, a batsman above the average, so far as strength went, though not always to be depended upon as certain to land upon the ball.

He was a remarkable fielder and a good batsman for a pitcher, men who play that position being poor wielders of the ash, as a rule, for the reason, as I have always thought, that they paid more attention to the art of deceiving the batsman that are opposed to them than they do to developing their own batting powers.

He could never cover as much ground as people thought, and though he ranked with Lange as a batsman, he was not in the same class with that player either as a base runner or a fielder, the Californian in the two latter respects being able to race all around him.

He passed quickly through what Jack called the rose-garden - lucus a non lucendo - through the shrubbery to the edge of the hill and there below him on a broad meadow was a game of cricket all laid out, the fielders in their places, keenly attentive to the bowler as he went through his motions, the sound of the stroke again, the batsmen twinkling between the wickets, fielders darting for the ball, tossing it in, and then the whole pattern taking shape again, a formal dance, white shirts on the green.

With two outs and a runner on second base a pitcher makes a great pitch: the batter hits a bloop into left field that would have been caught had the left fielder not been Albert Belle.

Hully Burroughs had been in no mood to join his sailor friends Bill Fielder and Dan Pressman in any Hotel Street excursions.

With two outs and a runner on second base a pitcher makes a great pitch: the batter hits a bloop into left field that would have been caught had the left fielder not been Albert Belle.

Albert Belle missed more fly balls than any other left fielder in baseball, but the system proved that he more than made up for it by swatting more doubles.

But the positions which he is specially bound to back up are the second and third bases, not only on all throws from the catcher, but from any other fielder, where it is possible for him to get in line with the throw.

On throws from the direction of first base he will be assisted by the left fielder and from the direction of third base by the right fielder.

The Hokan idea of practice was to let Casey swat a few wild ones while the basemen and fielders sat down, puffing cigars, tilting jugs to their lips, and chatting lightly of this and that.

With his partner, noted painter and up-and-coming fantasy author Robyn Fielder, he was cofounder and codirector of the Iff Theater.

Even fledged fielders back in Anche showed more respect, he thought darkly, choosing to ignore the fact that most of the respect had been directed toward the professors and not the Polytext students who trailed after them.