Meaning & use
Stubbles
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Short, stiff stalks of grain left standing in a field after the crop has been harvested, or fields covered in such stalks.
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Flocks of geese landed to feed in the frosty stubbles after the wheat harvest.
The farmer ploughed the stubbles back into the soil to enrich it for next season.
A note on using this word
"Stubble" is usually treated as a mass noun in everyday speech, but "stubbles" appears in agricultural and older literary usage to refer to multiple fields or fresh growths of stubble.
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stalkschaff
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