Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Land covered with stubble; a stubble-field.

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Examples

  • Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • In Mr. James Reese's buckwheat stubble-land, with its beautiful tones of red and brown, a crow parliament was being held, whereat solemn deliberations regarding the welfare of crowland were in progress.

    Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919

  • Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.

    Chapter XII. Part II 1917

  • In Mr. James Reese's buckwheat stubble-land, with its beautiful tones of red and brown, a crow parliament was being held, whereat solemn deliberations regarding the welfare of crowland were in progress.

    Rainbow Valley 1908

  • Heavy soils are made much more mellow by the cowpea, and when the crop is removed for hay, the stubble-land is easily prepared for a seeding to grass or small grain.

    Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

  • Where silage is wanted, the stubble-land can be seeded directly to wheat with good results.

    Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

  • -- A common practice has been to grow two crops of wheat, seeding first in the corn stubble-land, and plowing the ground for the second wheat crop, making a smooth surface for mowing.

    Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900

  • The seed has been sown, the crop has grown and ripened and been harvested, and now the thing is over: a chill wind pipes over the empty stubble-land where late the yellow corn stood and the labourers laboured: there is nothing more: "ripeness is all" that life offers or means.

    Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891

  • Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.

    Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Chin, close-buttoned to the, 422. dimple on his, 31. new-reaped like a stubble-land, 83. some bee had stung, 256.

    Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862

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