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field officer
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1
the redwinged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus.
See: soldier (black)bird
Quotations
<i>a</i>1820
The inhabitants give this bird the sobriquet of "Field Officer."
1866
. . . and flocks of the red-winged starling, or Field-officer, with jetty plumage and flashing epaulets of red and yellow, chatter round the marshy pools.
1959
Red-Winged Blackbird [is also called] Field officer, field officer bird (the red patches on the wings of the male suggest military insignia. Ont.)
2 — Fur Trade, Hist.
a senior commissioned officer of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Quotations
1934
One of these [practices] was the admission of field officers (chief factors and chief traders) to partnership in the concern.
1945
. . . James Cumines, erstwhile trader, now field officer. . . .