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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fieldsman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the wings, the fieldsmen begin practising the dives which they will need to save future runs.
▪ Watson, for years the worth New Zealand fieldsman, distinguished himself when others let themselves down.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fieldsman

fieldsman \fields"man\ n. (Cricket) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting.

Syn: fielder.

Wiktionary
fieldsman

n. (context cricket chiefly Australia dated in UK English) fielder

WordNet
fieldsman

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

Usage examples of "fieldsman".

I heard our fieldsmen comment upon the rich look of the soil, and express their hopes that we would be served as well when we came to our own place.

At twenty minutes to five that afternoon, the South African captain turned a fast yorker from England's most consistent bowler to the leg side, and two English fieldsmen raced for the red ball to try to cut it off from the boundary, and so save one, if not two, runs.