"playfield" meaning in English

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          "text": "The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]",
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        "A playing field."
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          "ref": "1977, Popular Science",
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          "sense": "area within which a game is played",
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