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Noun: fielding  feel-ding
  1. (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field
Noun: Fielding  feel-ding
  1. English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)
    - Henry Fielding
Verb: field  feeld
  1. Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
     
  2. (sport) play as a fielder
     
  3. Answer adequately or successfully
    "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
     
  4. Select (a team or individual player) for a game
    "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

Derived forms: fieldings

Type of: answer, author, choose, handle, handling, manipulation, palm, pick out, play, reply, respond, select, take, writer

Encyclopedia: Fielding, Roy Thomas

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