stubblefield

See also: Stubblefield, stubble field, and stubble-field

English

Noun

stubblefield (plural stubblefields)

1. 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.

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

     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.