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Definition of Stubbies
1. stubby [n] - See also: stubby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stubbies
Literary usage of Stubbies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1899)
"But liter on, in September or October, y:>u may flush him, or some of £15 family,
from the stubbies or irte turnip-fields ..."
2. Georgical Essays by Alexander Hunter (1803)
"On the Shim, for cleaning stubbies*. In the isle of Thanet they are particularly *
By A. Young, ..."
3. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Norfolk: Drawn Up for the by Arthur Young (1813)
"He remarked, that he has seen no drilled stubbies that do not shew gaps much more
numerous than ought ever to be seen. Mr. WHITING, of Fring, has been long ..."
4. General View of the Agriculture of Hertfordshire by Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) (1804)
"... summer, and autumn, and for winter will give four teams, of six in a team, to
break up the wheat and oat stubbies in fallowing the iand. ..."
5. Howitt's Journal by William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt (1847)
"The sportsman is abroad amid the stubbies and the heathy hills ; and thousands
of people, from city and town, are climbing the mountains, or strolling along ..."
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