'stubble'; a separate corn-stalk left in the ground.
'stubble'; a separate corn-stalk left in the ground.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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(botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
Abounding with stubs.
(botany) A single specimen of a corn plant once past the seedling stage and which may, at maturity, bear multiple ears of corn.
(dialectal, Appalachian, Northern England, Scotland) A stick, twig or peg, especially in roofing or matting.
Brushwood which springs up from stumps of roots. Cf. stob, sb., stoven.