s.w. dial. Also stubberd, stibbert. [Perh. a surname: cf. quot. 1741.] An early codling apple. Also attrib.
1741. Compl. Family-Piece, II. iii. 383. Apples. [July.] … Margaret Apple, Stubbard’s Apple, and Codling.
1786. Abercrombie, Gard. Assist., Arrangem. p. xi. Principal varieties [of apples] are … Summer stubbard.
1826. Horticult. Soc. Catal. Fruits, 148. Summer Stibbert.
1844. W. Barnes, Poems Rur. Life, 143. She gie ’d me var a treat A lot o’ stubberds var to eat.
1875. R. Hogg, Fruit Man. (ed. 4), 144. Summer Stibbert ([syn.) Stubbard).
1880. Hardy, Trumpet-Major, I. ii. 26. In the large stubbard-tree at the corner of the garden was erected a pole of larch fir.
1893. Q. [Quiller-Couch], Delect. Duchy, 218. Thic’ there’s a stubbard apple you’ve got in your hand.
