stump
IPA: stˈʌmp
noun
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- (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.
- (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.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
- 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.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
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Examples of "stump" in Sentences
- Stumps are no use and I know it.
- On the left is the stump of a tree.
- The girl sat on the stump for hours.
- How is this stump going to be used for
- The architect knows how to redesign stump.
- Tree stump are turned into a basket of apples.
- None of the three candidates took to the stump.
- Bush lies about his mother in stump speeches by on
- The broken stumps of the pharoses loom in the background.
- A chain was wrapped around the axle and hooked to the stump.
- Nik said ... um, that stump is decorated with pretty lights.
- The fallen tree or logs are moved from the stump to the landing.
- Reading a date between the lines, this man's stump is evidence of frostbite.
- One of the reasons why he detested what he called stump oratory was because he believed it to be
- Penis, amputation of, if the resulting stump is insufficient to permit normal function of micturition.
- Her answer, she said, Kiran, that she's ready and then she even offered to play what she called stump the candidate.
- For instance, if you need a large tree removed, are they experienced in stump grinding and other necessary aspects of the job?
- Personally, I think keeping the umbilical cord stump is way less gross than the eating of placentas (which I am told, tastes like liver).
- Using the time-tested "politics-as-high-school" analogy, a Palin stump speech in "Red" America is a lot like getting the head cheerleader to attend your sweet 16.
- In this election year we are sometimes painfully reminded that candidates do not reveal detailed plans for processes effecting outcomes promised in stump speeches.