Found 3 hits - Term: stubble, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stubble \stub"ble\, n. oe. stobil, stoble, of. estouble,
estuble, f. 'etuele, ll. stupla, stupula, l. stipula
stubble, stalk; cf. d. g. stopped, ohg. stupfila. cf.
stipule.
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.
1913 webster
stubble goose zool., the graylag goose. prov. eng.
--chaucer.
stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in
stubble.
1913 webster
see also:
stipule stubble goose stubble rake
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stubble
n : material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of
stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw
see also:
chaff husk shuck stalk straw
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
90 moby thesaurus words for "stubble":
vandyke, afterglow, afterimage, balance, barb, barbel, beard,
beaver, bones, bristle, bristles, butt, butt end, candle ends,
chaff, culm, deadwood, debris, detritus, dishwater, down, draff,
dregs, dust, end, fag end, filings, fossil, garbage, gash, goatee,
hogwash, holdover, husks, imperial, leavings, lees, leftovers,
odds and ends, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, peach fuzz,
potsherds, rags, raspings, refuse, relics, remainder, remains,
remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump,
sawdust, scourings, scrap iron, scraps, scum, setula, setule,
shadow, shards, shavings, side whiskers, slack, slag, slop, slops,
straw, striga, stump, survival, sweepings, swill, tares, trace,
tuft, vestige, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds,
whiskers
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