adv. [f. FIELD sb. + -WARD(S.] Towards the fields, in the direction of the fields.
1820. Keats, Isabella, xxxix.
| While little sounds of life are round me knelling, | |
| And glossy bees at noon do fieldward pass, | |
| And many a chapel bell the hour is telling. |
1862. Calverley, Verses & Tr., 82.
| When along the misty valleys fieldward winds the lowing herd, | |
| And the early worm is being dropped on by the early bird. |
1866. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), I. 277. My commonest walk was fieldwards, or down into the city (by many different old lanes and routes).
