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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

stobil

stoble

, OF.

estouble

estuble

, F.

étuele

, LL.

stupla

stupula

, L.

stipula

stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G.

stopped

, OHG.

stupfila

. Cf.

The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle.

“After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble.”

Mortimer.

Stubble goose

(Zool.)

the graylag goose.

[Prov. Eng.]

Chaucer.

–

Stubble rake

a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.

Noun.

[L.] The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the sythe or sickle.

After the first crop is off, they plow in the stubble.