stubble-field

stubble-field (plural stubble-fields)

1. Alternative spelling of stubble field
   • 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “The Storm Bursts”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 129:

     The autumn drifted away through all its seasons. The golden corn-harvest, the walks through the stubble-fields, and rambles into hazel-copses in search of nuts; the stripping of the apple-orchards of their ruddy fruit, amid the joyous cries and shouts of watching children; and the gorgeous tulip-like colouring of the later time had now come on with the shortening days.

   • 1895, Henry Van Dyke, The Story of the Other Wise Man, pages 30–1:

     […] out upon the flat plain, where the road ran straight as an arrow through the stubble-fields and parched meadows […] Artaban pressed onward until he arrived, at nightfall of the tenth day, beneath the shattered walls of populous Babylon.

   • 1904 [1874], Gustave Flaubert, anonymous translator, Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany, page 58:

     Presently a steeple rose among the trees; we crossed a stubble-field, climbed to the top of a ditch and caught a glimpse of a few of dwellings: the village of Pomelin.

   • 2013, J. Webb Mealy, The End of the Unrepentant: A Study of the Biblical Themes of Fire and Being Consumed, →ISBN, page 32:

     In this case the illustration of burning up the stubble-field serves to convey theme 6, being disposed of like trash, and 2, referring to the completeness of the destruction, since there will be “no survivor.”