subs. (betting).—A backer of the field [i.e., the RUCK (q.v.), as against the favorite]. At cricket, a player in the field as against the team at the wickets.
1853. WHYTE-MELVILLE, Digby Grand, ch. vi. I accommodate a vociferous FIELDER with 6 to 4 in hundreds as my concluding stake.
1883. Graphic, 11 August, p. 138, col. 2. As a batter, bowler, and FIELDER combined … he has yet no equal.
