As the seed is now drilled in, and the plants grow in mathematically straight lines, of course when the crop is reaped, if you stand at one side of the field you can see right across between the short stubbs, so that a mouse could hardly find shelter.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
stubbs, hold the horses."
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
"'Oh that Dr. stubbs would make a morning call!
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith