stump
see also: Stump
Pronunciation
Stump
Proper noun
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see also: Stump
Pronunciation
- IPA: /stʌmp/
stump (plural stumps)
- 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.
- 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!'
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- (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.
- to stir one's stumps
- 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.
- French: souche, moignon
- German: Stumpf
- Italian: moncherino
- Portuguese: toco, cotoco
- Russian: пень
- Spanish: tocón, tueco (tree), muñón m (arm, leg or tail), raíz f (tooth), punta final f (pencil), cabo m (candle)
- Spanish: estaca
- French: estompe
- Spanish: poste
stump (stumps, present participle stumping; past and past participle stumped)
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- This last question has me stumped.
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- Synonyms: campaign
- He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
- (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).
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 2024748 ↗, prologue:
- A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the 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.
- German: ratlos sein, verblüfft sein, mit seiner Weisheit am Ende sein
Stump
Proper noun
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