Definitions
short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days
Word origin
From Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.
Used in a sentence
“Here a system ( if it may be called a system ) of stubbling prevails — wheat succeeding wheat for a series of years, and without any material diminution of the yield.”
“In 1919 the stubbled crop was heavier than either that fallowed or plowed.”
“Both spring and fall ploughing produced a crop freer from weeds than where the seed was stubbled in.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Short beard growth”7 letters
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