Word Meanings - STUBBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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 , the graylag goose. Chaucer.
Additional info about word: STUBBLE
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 , the graylag goose. Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble. (more info) étuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G.
Related words: (words related to STUBBLE)
- GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - GOOSERY
1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. - SCYTHEMAN
One who uses a scythe; a mower. Macaulay. - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - STALKY
Hard as a stalk; resembling a stalk. At the top bears a great stalky head. Mortimer. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - FIRST
Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - BARLEY-BREE
Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns. - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - SICKLEBILL
Any one of three species of humming birds of the genus Eutoxeres, native of Central and South America. They have a long and strongly curved bill. Called also the sickle-billed hummer. A curlew. A bird of the genus Epimachus and allied genera. - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - GROUNDLESS
Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - STALK-EYED
Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. See Podophthalmia. - STALKLESS
Having no stalk. - AFTER DAMP
An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid. - AFTER-NOTE
One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - WAY-GOOSE
See 2 - FOREGROUND
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6. - SKEELDUCK; SKEELGOOSE
The common European sheldrake. - MONGOOSE; MONGOOS
A species of ichneumon , native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose