Stubble

Word STUBBLE
Character 7
Hyphenation stub ble
Pronunciations /ˈstʌb.əl/

Definitions and meanings of "Stubble"

What do we mean by stubble?

The short, stiff stalks of grain or hay remaining on a field after harvesting. noun

Something resembling this material, especially the short growth of hair that eventually protrudes from the skin after shaving. noun

The lower ends of grain-stalks, collectively, left standing in the ground when the crop is cut; the covering of a harvested field of grain. noun

Something resembling or analogous to stubble, especially a short rough beard, or the short hair on a cropped head. See stubbly. noun

Same as stubble-cane. noun

The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. noun

The graylag goose. noun

A rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble. noun

Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face. noun

The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested. noun

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds noun

Short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days noun

Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.

The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Stubble

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The word "stubble" in example sentences

If I have on the right (or, I guess, wrong) sort of underwear, the stubble is like Velcro and I have to rip my undies off every time I go to the bathroom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I definitely think stubble is the way to go for him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Price: 3,500,000 Euro ckolderup oh no, semantic polysemy! we've never had to deal with that before! csessums patched with rat stubble from a barber's dust pan cwaxler civil case Tiffany brought against eBay drothschild iT WAS A QUEER, SULTRY SUMMER, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York jessamyn Personally, I'm after the uncontrolled growth of pubic hair. ❋ Unknown (2008)

OR amount of stubble is proportionate to job satisfaction. who wants to work somewhere that makes shave. you might as well say employablity is proportionate to cost of your tie/suit instead of saying casual attire/comfortablity of dress is proportionate to job satisfaction ❋ Jessica Hagy (2007)

[Page 49] poor souls were driven forth to gather in stubble for mixing with their clay; and yet how they were required to give in as large a tale of bricks at the end of each day's work as if the straw had been duly provided. ❋ Unknown (1891)

When the stubble is driven by the wind it will rest, at last, under some hedge, in some ditch or other; but he prays that they might not only be driven away as stubble, but burnt up as stubble. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Cary Grant with two week’s worth of stubble is a drunken bum. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The way you’d be covered in stubble and unwashed to the point where you can smell your own skin. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Burning the stubble is the easiest and cheapest way to clear the land and put potassium into the soil. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)

It was cut down, however, with great regularity and speed, and the general evenness of the stubble was the subject of general remark. ❋ Various (N/A)

And I will scatter them as stubble, which is carried away by the wind in the desert. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Surely the costly bays, whose hoofs may even now be heard, must belong to the lordly owner of these broad acres -- this undulating landscape of grass and stubble, which is not beautiful but evidently fertile! ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

They are clothed with a kind of prickly stubble, which is neither down nor feathers, and which probably defends them from the coarse vegetation and gravel which covers the region where they exist. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

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