A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood.
R. Browning.
3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. "Stubbed, vulgar
constitutions." Berkley.
Stub"bed*ness, n. The quality or state of being stubbed.
Stub"bi*ness (?), n. The state of being stubby.
Stub"ble (?), n. [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. étuele,
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.
Stubble goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. --
Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.
Stub"bled (?), a. 1. Covered with stubble.
A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain.
Gay.