| stub | 1. The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub. "Stubs sharp and hideous to behold." (Chaucer) "And prickly stubs instead of trees are found." (Dryden) 2. A log; a block; a blockhead. 3. The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar. 4. A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded. 5. A pen with a short, blunt nib. 6. A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron. <medicine> Stub end, the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off. Stub twist, material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined. Origin: OE. Stubbe, AS. Stub, styb; akin to D. Stobbe, LG. Stubbe, Dan. Stub, Sw. Stubbe, Icel. Stubbr, stubbi; cf. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| stubbed | 1. Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse. 2. Abounding in stubs; stubby. "A bit of stubbed ground, once a wood." (R. Browning) 3. Not nice or delicate; hardy; rugged. "Stubbed, vulgar constitutions." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 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 (01 Mar 1998) |
| stubby | <botany> A seedling grown in a four-inch high, tapered, easy-to-remove container. (09 Oct 1997) |