Stump ¹

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

Stump ²

Definition: 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.

Stump ³

Definition: One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

Stump ⁴

Definition: 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.

Stump ⁵

Definition: 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 ⁶

Definition: To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

Stump ⁷

Definition: To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.

Stump ⁸

Definition: To challenge; also, to nonplus.

Stump ⁹

Definition: 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.

Stump ¹⁰

Definition: 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.

Stump ¹¹

Definition: To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.

Stump ¹²

Definition: To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

stump ¹³

Definition: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

stump ¹⁴

Definition: (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket

stump ¹⁵

Definition: the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed

stump ¹⁶

Definition: the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled

stump ¹⁷

Definition: remove tree stumps from; "stump a field"

stump ¹⁸

Definition: cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her"

stump ¹⁹

Definition: travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast"

stump ²⁰

Definition: walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"