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English
Noun
stubblefield (plural stubblefields)
- Alternative spelling of stubble field
1835 [1812], G. B. Niebuhr, translated by Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, The History of Rome, volume 2, page 152:The peasantry had fled into the city with all their goods, even with their cattle; which however were driven out under an armed guard on the side away from the river into the stubblefields under the walls.
1938 January, C. R. Enlow, “Agronomic Briefs”, in Soil Conservation, volume 3, number 7, page 185:If, for instance, the seed is planted in a stubblefield and covered by running a cultipacker over it, much better results from the germination of small grass seeds may be expected than that from a very clean seedbed.
1941 November, Ward Hill, “He Takes Flying Seriously”, in Flying and Popular Aviation, volume 29, number 5, page 95:“When I was about nine years old, a barnstormer landed in a stubblefield not far from our home in Beatrice, Neb. […]”
1997, Stanley H. Anderson, John R. Squires, The Prairie Falcon, →ISBN, page 45:The two birds then flew over a stubblefield.
2001, David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, →ISBN, pages 451–2:Heavy fighting resulted, and the Union troops made a steady, slow movement into a stubblefield, which the Confederates set ablaze to thwart the Federal progress.