Stump

/stʌmp/ · noun

Meaning

The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb..

Definitions by Sense

1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
2. (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
3. (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
4. (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
5. (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
6. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
7. (slang, humorous) A leg.
8. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.

Example Sentences

Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump!'

to stir one's stumps

This last question has me stumped.

He’s been stumping for that reform for months.

A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.

Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.

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• stumps
• stumping
• stumped
• no-table-tags
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• stump
• stumpest
• stumpedst
• stumpeth
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