[f. STUBBLE sb. + -ED2.] Covered with stubble, stubbly.
a. 1720. Gay, Epist., iv. To P. Methuen, 85. A crow was strutting o’er the stubbled plain.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., ii. The noiseless passage of the plough as it … wrought a graceful pattern in the stubbled fields.
1913. N. Munro, in Blackw. Mag., Dec., 784/2. [He] felt at his stubbled chin, and took from his sack the razors.
