▪ I. † ˈstubbled, a.1 Obs. rare.
[Cf. stubble a.; but perh. a misprint.]
= stubbed.
| a 1529 Skelton E. Rummyng 422 Her legges..were sturdy and stubbed [v.r. stubbled], Myghty pestels and clubbed. |
▪ II. stubbled, a.2
(ˈstʌb(ə)ld)
[f. stubble n. + -ed2.]
Covered with stubble, stubbly.
| a 1720 Gay Epist. iv. To P. Methuen 85 A crow was strutting o'er the stubbled plain. 1844 Dickens Mart. Chuz. ii, The noiseless passage of the plough as it..wrought a graceful pattern in the stubbled fields. 1913 N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Dec. 784/2 [He] felt at his stubbled chin, and took from his sack the razors. |