fieldlore

English

Alternative forms

• field-lore, field lore

Etymology

From field +‎ lore.

Noun

fieldlore (uncountable)

1. Knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
   • 2002, Mark Storey, John Clare: The Critical Heritage - Page 317:

     And he often wrote long formless pieces full of place-names and of fieldlore charmingly expressed, songs uttering his love and his pathetic joy in retrospection, poems mingling the two elements.