Meanings
plural stubbards · alternative stibbard
- A variety of apple.
They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 531 more example
‘We are passing the apple trees now; quarendens and stibbards.’
1916, Dorothy Richardson, Backwater
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