stubble
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
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Noun[edit]
stubble (usually uncountable, plural stubbles)
- (countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
- (countable and uncountable) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
Synonyms[edit]
- (short hair on man’s face): five o'clock shadow
- stub
- stump
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Translations[edit]
short, coarse hair
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short stalks left in a field after harvest
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Verb[edit]
stubble (third-person singular simple present stubbles, present participle stubbling, simple past and past participle stubbled)
- (agriculture) 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.
- 1851, United States. Department of Agriculture, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year: 1850, page 371:
- 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.
- 1922, John Selden Cole, Alanson Lola Hallsted, Methods of Winter-wheat Production at the Fort Hays Branch Station, page 22:
- In 1919 the stubbled crop was heavier than either that fallowed or plowed.
- 1922, Canada. Dept. of Agriculture. Research Station, Lacombe, Alta, Interim Report of the Superintendent, page 65:
- Both spring and fall ploughing produced a crop freer from weeds than where the seed was stubbled in.
- 1983, W. H. Smith, Symposium on Potential Productivity of Field Crops Under Different Environments, page 377:
- Because the biggest single expense in producing the crop is planting, good stubbling ability is prized.
Usage notes[edit]
When the second crop arises from shoots that sprout from the roots of the stubble, one says that the second crop stubbles, while when sowing seeds for a crop in a field of stubble, one refers to stubbling in the crop.
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