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Stubʹble Geese

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called in Devonshire Arish Geese. The geese turned into the stubble-fields or arrishers, to pick up the corn left after harvest. (See Earing.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.