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stubbles

stubbles is the plural of stubble.

Meaning of stubble

Noun

stubble (usually uncountable, plural stubbles)

  1. (countable, uncountable, usually) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
  2. (countable, uncountable, usually, literal) The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
    • Lord (ſayth he) Put them as a wheele and a ſtoble before the face of the wynde. For as the ſtoble, whyle the wynde bloweth wauereth and flyethe aboue in the ayre, nowe hygh nowe lowe, but anone as the wynde paſſeth it falleth adowne to the erthe and lyeth there ſtylle.1536 October 26 (date written; Gregorian calendar), “[The Eyght Commandement] Cap[ut] VII”, in Diues and Pauper, London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti […], published 1536, →OCLC, folio 313, recto

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Questions about stubbles

What is stubbles the plural of?
Stubbles is the plural of stubble.

Words near stubbles in the dictionary

  1. stubble-fields
  2. stubbled
  3. stubblefield
  4. stubblefields
  5. stubbleless
  6. stubbles
  7. stubbleward
  8. stubblier
  9. stubbliest
  10. stubbly
  11. Stubbo

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