Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stubble \Stub"ble\, n. [OE. stobil, stoble, OF. estouble,
   estuble, F. ['e]tuele, LL. stupla, stupula, L. stipula
   stubble, stalk; cf. D. & G. stopped, OHG. stupfila. Cf.
   {Stipule}.]
   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.'' --Mortimer.

   {Stubble goose} (Zo["o]l.), the graylag goose. [Prov. Eng.]
      --Chaucer.

   {Stubble rake}, a rake with long teeth for gleaning in
      stubble.