See Also: stubble(medicine)
stubble(dictionary)
stubble(dictionary)

jockette (iou) and stubble (medicine)


jockette (iou)



jockette noun. rare. M20.
[from JOCK noun2 + -ETTE.]
A female jockey.

stubble (medicine)


stubble


The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle. "After the first crop is off, they plow in the wheast stubble.

<zoology> " Stubble goose, the graylag goose. Stubble rake, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in stubble.

Origin: OE. Stobil, stoble, OF. Estouble, estuble, F. Etuele, LL. Stupla, stupula, L. Stipula stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. Stopped, OHG. Stupfila. Cf. Stipule.

Source: Websters Dictionary