"broken field" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1905, Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide, page 169",
          "text": "Quarter-backs this year who have gained considerable notice are Fallis of Haskell Indians and Pooler of Kansas University, they both being very good in a broken field.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Chronicle of American Physical Education, page 383",
          "text": "The forward passer receives the ball, runs a yard or two as a feint, and then, with scarcely a look over the broken field, selects a person and a place and throws the ball.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media",
          "text": "Barely two minutes after the interval the margin was reduced to just a single point after Elliot Daly, under a bit of pressure, knocked on 40 metres from his own line and gave the Wallabies a broken field to play with.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A field in which there are defensive players from the other team between the player who has the ball and the goal."
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        "(rugby, American football) A field in which there are defensive players from the other team between the player who has the ball and the goal."
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        "American-football",
        "ball-games",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews, Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, page 72",
          "text": "The birds are gregarious even during the nesting season, and in spring and summer seem to be equally busy “ ploughing up ” the earth in the already broken field with their long, crowlike bills; naturally such action creates trouble with the farmer, but on the whole, an examination of the constituents of the bird's diet, shows that he is a greater insect destroyer than a crop destroyer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Sara Teasdale, “The Broken Field”, in George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, editors, The Yale Review, page 755",
          "text": "My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A field that has been plowed."
      ],
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  "word": "broken field"
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          "ref": "1905, Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide, page 169",
          "text": "Quarter-backs this year who have gained considerable notice are Fallis of Haskell Indians and Pooler of Kansas University, they both being very good in a broken field.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Chronicle of American Physical Education, page 383",
          "text": "The forward passer receives the ball, runs a yard or two as a feint, and then, with scarcely a look over the broken field, selects a person and a place and throws the ball.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media",
          "text": "Barely two minutes after the interval the margin was reduced to just a single point after Elliot Daly, under a bit of pressure, knocked on 40 metres from his own line and gave the Wallabies a broken field to play with.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A field in which there are defensive players from the other team between the player who has the ball and the goal."
      ],
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        "(rugby, American football) A field in which there are defensive players from the other team between the player who has the ball and the goal."
      ],
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        "American-football",
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        "football",
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          "ref": "1906, Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews, Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music, page 72",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1916, Sara Teasdale, “The Broken Field”, in George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, editors, The Yale Review, page 755",
          "text": "My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain",
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        }
      ],
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        "A field that has been plowed."
      ],
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