stump

IPA: stˈʌmp

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.

(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.

Examples of "stump" in Sentences

Bush lies about his mother in stump speeches by on
Nik said ... um, that stump is decorated with pretty lights.
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.