fieldsman

fielder

Noun

  1. fielder
    • The batsmen took an easy single as the ball approached the fieldsman but Gambhir called for a second on the throw and Franklin uprooted the non-striker's stumps. - 2009 March 19, AAP, “India 4-278 at stumps”, in Herald...
    • Radley pulled it, as a great laugh went up, to the very spot from which the fieldsman had been removed. - 1922, Ernest Raymond, Tell England:
    • I timed it successfully, and had no doubt of having added four to my score, when, to my astonishment, I saw a fieldsman running from the direction of the hedge. - 1920, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159,...

Origin

From field + -s- + man.

Forms

fieldsmen