stubble

Pronunciation: /ˈstʌb.əl/

The English word “stubble” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

verb

To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed, either by sowing a second crop or by allowing shoots to sprout from the roots of the stubble.

Etymology

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. Doublet of stipule.

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