Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Afield

Afield ({not transcribed}) , adverb

[Prefix a- + field.]

1.
To, in, or on the field.
We drove afield. — Milton
How jocund did they drive their team afield! — Gray
2.
Out of the way; astray.
Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! — Trollope