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Definition of Stubbles
1. stubble [n] - See also: stubble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stubbles
Literary usage of Stubbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk: Drawn Up for the by Arthur Young (1813)
"BURNING stubbles. i 1 found many oat-stubbles in the new enclosure of ...
Where stubbles are stout it must be excellent husbandry, and will remind the ..."
2. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"The sources of humus in dry areas includes: (1) organic matter that decays on
the surface of the soil; (2) the roots and stubbles of plants; (3) green crops ..."
3. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by Sir John Sinclair (1814)
"OF stubbles. As the crops of grain, generally speaking, are cut close to the
ground, no stubble is left that can be mown, or which can be applied to any ..."
4. The Rural Economy of the Southern Counties: Comprizing Kent, Surrey, Sussex by Marshall (William), Mr Marshall, William Marshall (1798)
"Even in the very simple operation of RAKING up the scattered corn, left upon
stubbles, whether after binding or cocking, there are varieties of practice. ..."
5. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"The wheat stubbles are in this way sown with green crops, to be followed by 50
of barley and 50 of beans or peas ; the barley sown with clover and followed ..."
6. The Birds of Manitoba by Ernest Thompson Seton (1891)
"When feeding on the stubbles both species of Prairie Grouse associate together
in the packs, but separate when the Sharp-tails go into the woods ..."
7. British Farmer's Magazine (1869)
"It is a very valuable implement for breaking np bean and pea stubbles in the autumn.
It clears a width of from 30 to 36 inches. I continued to work it for ..."
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