Category:Stubble

Stub"ble, n. Etym: [oe. stobil, stoble, of. estouble, estuble, f. Étuele, ll. stupla, stupula, l. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & g. Stopped, ohg. stupfila. Cf. Stipule.]

Defn: 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 (zoöl.), the graylag goose. [prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.