Stubble
Pronunciation : Stub"ble
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble, estuble, F. ?tuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf. Stipule.]
Definition : Defn: The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble." Mortimer. Stubble goose (Zo?l.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913