Stump

[stʌmp]

Definition

(noun.) (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket.

(noun.) the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed.

(noun.) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.

(verb.) remove tree stumps from; 'stump a field'.

(verb.) cause to be perplexed or confounded; 'This problem stumped her'.

(verb.) travel through a district and make political speeches; 'the candidate stumped the Northeast'.

Checker: Sabina--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.

(n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

(v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.

(v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus.

(v. t.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.

(v. i.) To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

Checker: Peggy

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Stub.

v. a. [Colloquial, U. S.] Challenge, dare.

Typist: Willard

Definition

n. the part of a tree left in the ground after the trunk is cut down: the part of a body remaining after a part is cut off or destroyed: (cricket) one of the three sticks forming a wicket.—v.t. to reduce to a stump to truncate to cut off a part of: to strike unexpectedly as the foot against something fixed: (cricket) to knock down the wickets when the batsman is out of his ground: to bring to a stop by means of some obstacle or other to defeat ruin: (U.S.) to challenge to do something difficult: to make stump-speeches throughout a district constituency &c.: (slang) to pay down hand over (with up).—v.i. to walk along heavily: to make stump-speeches.—ns. Stump′er one who stumps; Stump′-or′ator one who harangues the multitude from a temporary platform as the stump of a tree: a speaker who travels about the country and whose appeals are mainly to the passions of his audience; Stump′-or′atory; Stump′-speech an impromptu speech delivered on any improvised platform any speech made all round a district by some frothy agitator.—adj. Stump′y full of stumps short and thick.—n. (slang) cash.—Stump out (cricket) to put out by knocking down the stump or wicket.

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