stubble

Preposition: over

• winter: Land management options within the scheme included: Cropped arable fields being left as stubble over the winter following harvest.

Converse of object

• leave: Ideal for all over body use and face, which leaves the skin stubble free and smooth for up to six weeks.
• grow: The kind of scary when you realize you've grown stubble since you last got off the sofa.
• have: He had a few days stubble on his face.
• overwinter: The creation of arable field margins and leaving overwinter stubbles followed by a spring crop should help boost local farm bird populations.

Adjective modifier

• over-wintered: The farm is also under Arable Stewardship which entails leaving over-wintered stubbles for ground-nesting birds.
• short: The second is a foil positioned in-between the two trimmers which remove the short stubble the left behind.
• weedy: He over- wintered stock on weedy cereal stubble, feeding ad lib oat or barley straw in the field.
• dry: The graveyard had been freshly mown when I visited, the dry grass stubble looking like a blasted heath around the church.

Modifies a noun

• turnip: We've received an ' occupational license ' to move ewes across a road to a fresh field of stubble turnips.
• burning: Some trees have also been lost through stubble burning.
• field: Winter stubble fields are rather a thing of the past, which is bad news for our winter birds.
• cleaning: Stubble cleaning can be an effective way of reducing seed numbers in soil.
• cultivator: Designed for use straight after the combine as a stubble cultivator and to incorporate crop residue.

Noun used with modifier

• barley: They have also used the machine for drilling turnips straight on to winter barley stubble.
• cereal: A further flush of flowering may occur from September to October if new shoots develop on the cut down stumps left in cereal stubble.
• wheat: I saw several wheat stubbles From 40 rods to 10 rods.
• winter: Winter stubble fields are rather a thing of the past, which is bad news for our winter birds.
• corn: They could run over corn stubble even in their bare feet.
• designer: From the Visa stripes of the credit card to the designer stubble.