"field-book" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "field-books",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "field-book (plural field-books)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "field book"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1799, Alexander Ewing, A Synopsis of Practical Mathematics, page 144:",
          "text": "Having chosen your first station, place poles in proper places, and measure the angle at this station; which write in your field-book below the former character.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1832, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York:",
          "text": "I have not noticed any description in reference to buildings in the field-book, but there may be such entries contained in it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838, Peter Schuyler Bruff, A treatise on engineering field-work, page 161:",
          "text": "We have seen many instances of ruinous errors being committed, entirely from this method of keeping the field-book; and we would urge those persons who are in the habit of keeping their book in this manner, to abandon it before they have reason to be sorry.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Peter Bruff, A Treatise on Engineering Field-Work, page 40:",
          "text": "It has been a matter of considerable discussion, whether field-books should be kept in ink or pencil.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of field book"
      ],
      "id": "en-field-book-en-noun-JSMwn0gQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "field book",
          "field book#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "field-book"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "field-books",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "field-book (plural field-books)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "field book"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1799, Alexander Ewing, A Synopsis of Practical Mathematics, page 144:",
          "text": "Having chosen your first station, place poles in proper places, and measure the angle at this station; which write in your field-book below the former character.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1832, New York (State). Legislature. Assembly, Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York:",
          "text": "I have not noticed any description in reference to buildings in the field-book, but there may be such entries contained in it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838, Peter Schuyler Bruff, A treatise on engineering field-work, page 161:",
          "text": "We have seen many instances of ruinous errors being committed, entirely from this method of keeping the field-book; and we would urge those persons who are in the habit of keeping their book in this manner, to abandon it before they have reason to be sorry.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Peter Bruff, A Treatise on Engineering Field-Work, page 40:",
          "text": "It has been a matter of considerable discussion, whether field-books should be kept in ink or pencil.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of field book"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "field book",
          "field book#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "field-book"
}