Stubble

Definitions

1. Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
   countable, uncountable, usually
2. The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
   countable, uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Lord (ſayth he) Put⟳ them as a wheele and a ſtoble before the face⟳ of the wynde. For as the ſtoble, whyle the wynde bloweth wauereth and flyethe aboue in the ayre, nowe hygh nowe lowe, but anone as the wynde paſſeth it falleth adowne to the erthe and lyeth there ſtylle.”

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