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.
  • The broken stumps of the pharoses loom in the background.
  • A chain was wrapped around the axle and hooked to the stump.
  • The fallen tree or logs are moved from the stump to the landing.

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