Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A field covered with stubble; a piece of ground from which grain has been cut.
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Examples
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There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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The advance of the former was slow, limited by the sluggish pace of his cattle; the latter left behind him stubble-field and hedgerow, crag and dark heath, all glittering with frost-rime in the broad November moonlight, at the rate of six miles an hour.
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He opened a gate, and they entered a path across a stubble-field.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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He saw the stubble-field, and a slight girlish figure in the midst of it — up against the sky.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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When once they had left behind the stubble-field of their environment and the parish of Welland, they sauntered on comfortably, Lady
Two on a Tower 2006
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She desired also that the copses should be full of pheasants, the stubble-field of partridges, and the gorse covers of foxes; in that way, also, she loved her country.
Framley Parsonage 2004
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In a stubble-field shoot, where cripples can't swim away or hide in the cattails, I'll go ahead and shoot doubles.
3 Shots at Waterfowl 2002
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In a stubble-field shoot, where cripples can't swim away or hide in the cattails, I'll go ahead and shoot doubles.
3 Shots at Waterfowl 2002
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Just at this side of the gate leading into the stubble-field there was already a concourse of people when Tony arrived near it with the hounds, and immediately there was a holloaing and loud screeching of directions, which was soon understood to mean that the hounds were at once to be taken away!
The American Senator 2004
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This urchin being sent for from the stubble-field, was hastily muffled in the buff coat, and girded rather to than with the sword of a full-grown man, his little legs plunged into jack-boots, and a steel cap put upon his head, which seemed, from its size, as if it had been intended to extinguish him.
Old Mortality 2004
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