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Definition of Stubble
1. Noun. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds.
Specialized synonyms: Bran
Generic synonyms: Plant Material, Plant Substance
Derivative terms: Chaffy, Husk, Shuck
2. Noun. Short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days.
Definition of Stubble
1. n. The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.
Definition of Stubble
1. Noun. (qualifier countable and uncountable) short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face. ¹
2. Noun. (qualifier countable and uncountable) the short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stubble
1. a short, rough growth of beard [n -S] : STUBBLED [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stubble
Literary usage of Stubble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"The arrow cannot make him flee; sling ** stones are turned with him into stubble.
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. ..."
2. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1850)
"The stubble plow No. 37, would not make nice work in sward-furrows ... 9 is a
pretty good representation of the work of this plow in stubble or old land. ..."
3. The Southern Planter (1852)
"Most of the insects remain unchanged in the stubble till the following year.
If, then, we can destroy the maggots remaining in the stubble in the field, ..."
4. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"Ml. 12. to gather stubble instead of straw. 7.consumed them as stubble. 20.wilt thou
pursue tin dry stubble? 2S(2o).slingstones are turned...into stubble. ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"They turned in their stubble to sow another croppe of wheate in the same place.
... Something resembling or analogous to stubble, especially a short rough ..."
6. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Where the hay is not needed for live stock, the timothy may be omitted and the
clover, preferably mammoth, grown for seed only, the straw and the stubble ..."
7. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"Where the hay is not needed for live stock, the timothy may be omitted and the
clover, preferably mammoth, grown for seed only, the straw and the stubble ..."
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