stubble
nounEtymology
From Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.
Definitions
Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed,…
To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed, either by sowing a second crop or by allowing shoots to sprout from the roots of the stubble.
- Here a system ( if it may be called a system ) of stubbling prevails — wheat succeeding wheat for a series of years, and without any material diminution of the yield.
- In 1919 the stubbled crop was heavier than either that fallowed or plowed.
- Both spring and fall ploughing produced a crop freer from weeds than where the seed was stubbled in.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for stubble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA