Meaning of 'stump' (Webster Dictionary)
- The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the
stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
- The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is
amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the
stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
- The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
- One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a
wicket and support the bails.
- A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or
any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil
drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and
gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
- 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 fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock
to form a guide for a movable piece.
- To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or
knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off
his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
- To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
- To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
- To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
- To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something
fixed; to stub.
- To challenge; also, to nonplus.
- To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering
purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump,
under Stump, n.
Meaning of 'stump' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- remove tree stumps from
Meaning (2):
- travel through a district and make political speeches
Example in sentence:- the candidate stumped the Northeast
Meaning (3):
- walk heavily
Example in sentence:- The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots
Meaning (4):
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
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