stubblefield

plural stubblefields

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of stubble field.

   The two birds then flew over a stubblefield.

   1997, Stanley H. Anderson, John R. Squires, The Prairie Falcon, →ISBN, page 45

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   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.

   1835 [1812], G. B. Niebuhr, translated by Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, The History of Rome, volume 2, page 152

   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.

   1938 January, C. R. Enlow, “Agronomic Briefs”, in Soil Conservation, volume 3, number 7, page 185

   “When I was about nine years old, a barnstormer landed in a stubblefield not far from our home in Beatrice, Neb.[…]”

   1941 November, Ward Hill, “He Takes Flying Seriously”, in Flying and Popular Aviation, volume 29, number 5, page 95

   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.

   2001, David J. Eicher, The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War, →ISBN, pages 451–2

   It was 40 years ago, down in the San Luis Valley, over by Monte Vista, your intrepid scribe went out into the grain stubblefields to take photos of cranes — greater sandhills and whooping.

   2017 March 11, Miles F. Porter IV, “Hey, Spike! revisits cranes at Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge”, in Summit Daily

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Bond County, Illinois, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas, United States, named after Wyatt Stubblefield.