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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1596, 1650
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Feild pece, n. [e.m.E. (1590).] A piece of artillery for use in the field. — 1596 Dalr. II. 298/24.
The Inglismen raiset thair camp, to stel cannounes, and thair feild peices, at … Pinkincleuch c1650 Spalding I. 167.
Felt Marshall Leslie … marchit from Abirdene with the foot army south, and the field peces also
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