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Webster 1913 Edition

Stump

Stump

,
Noun.
[OE.
stumpe
,
stompe
; akin to D.
stomp
, G.
stumpf
, Icel.
stumpr
, Dan. & Sw.
stump
, and perhaps also to E.
stamp
.]
1.
The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
2.
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
.
3.
pl.
The legs;
as, to stir one’s
stumps
.
[Slang]
4.
(Cricket)
One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
5.
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.
6.
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.

Stump

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Stumped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Stumping
.]
1.
To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Around the
stumped
top soft moss did grow.
Dr. H. More.
2.
To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
[Colloq.]
3.
To challenge; also, to nonplus.
[Colloq.]
4.
To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes;
as, to
stump
a State, or a district
. See
To go on the stump
, under
Stump
,
Noun.
[Colloq. U.S.]
5.
(Cricket)
(a)
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.
T. Hughes.
(b)
To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
And
stumped
the wicket.
Tennyson.
To stump it
.
(a)
To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape
.
[Slang]
Ld. Lytton.
(b)
To make electioneering speeches.
[Colloq. U.S.]

Stump

,
Verb.
I.
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
To stump up
,
to pay cash.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Stump

STUMP

,
Noun.
[G.]
1.
The stub of a tree; the part of a tree remaining int he earth after the tree is cut down, or the part of any plant left in the earth by the sythe or sickle.
2.
The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; as the stump of a leg, of a finger or a tooth.

STUMP

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To strike any thing fixed and hard with the toe. [Vulgar.
2.
To challenge. [Vulgar.]

Definition 2024

stump

stump

English

Noun

stump ‎(plural stumps)

  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. (figuratively) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
    • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
      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!'
  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.
    to stir one's stumps
  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.
  9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Derived terms

Translations

cricket: wooden post forming part of the wicket

Verb

stump ‎(third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

  1. (transitive) to stop, confuse, or puzzle
  2. (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem
    This last question has me stumped.
  3. (intransitive) to campaign
    He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
  4. (transitive, US, colloquial) to travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes
  5. (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
  6. (transitive, cricket) to bowl down the stumps of (a wicket)
    • Tennyson
      A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.
  7. (intransitive) to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge

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Swedish

Noun

stump c

  1. stump; something which has been cut off or continuously shortened, such as a very short pencil

Declension

Inflection of stump 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stump stumpen stumpar stumparna
Genitive stumps stumpens stumpars stumparnas

Derived terms

Etymology

From Middle English stumpe, stompe ‎(“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump ‎(“stump”), from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz ‎(“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp ‎(“stump”), Old High German stumph ‎(“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr ‎(“stump”). More at stop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stʌmp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

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