stubble-goose
A goose fed on the stubble.
| c 1386 Chaucer Cook's Prol. 27 For of thy percely yet they fare the wors That they han eten with thy stubbel goos. 1584 Cogan Haven Health clxvi. 136 The greene goose is better [for digestion] than the stubble goose. 1612 Benvenuto's Passenger i. ii. 87 You are euen as wise as a stubble Goose. 1655 Moufet Health's Improv. x. 87 A young stuble goose feeding it self fat in wheaten fields, is the best of all. 1708 W. King Art of Cookery 77 So stubble Geese at Michaelmas are seen Upon the spit, next May produces green. 1816 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XLII. 37 Geese..are eaten young, under the name of green geese,..They are eaten adult, under the name of stubble geese. 1842 Barham Ingol. Leg., Lay St. Cuthbert 5 And the fat stubble-goose Swims in gravy and juice. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm II. 720 Young geese are never seen at a Scottish farmer's table, though a stubble-goose at Michaelmas seems to be prized in England. |
b. The grey-lag goose (Anser cinereus).
| 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Birds 147. |