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Stump   /stəmp/   Listen
Stump

noun
1.
The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.  Synonym: tree stump.
2.
The part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed.
3.
(cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket.
4.
A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.  Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox.
verb
(past & past part. stumped; pres. part. stumping)
1.
Cause to be perplexed or confounded.  Synonym: mix up.
2.
Walk heavily.  Synonyms: stamp, stomp.
3.
Travel through a district and make political speeches.
4.
Remove tree stumps from.



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"Stump" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Firerug Shoveling Snow off the Beds Playing they were Tea-cups of Custard A Starving Baby Pleading with Silent Eloquence Patrick Breen's Diary Jacob Donner's Death A Child's Vow A Christmas Dinner Lost on the Summits A Stump Twenty-two Feet High Seven Nursing Babes at Donner Lake A Devout Father A Dying Boy Sorrow and Suffering ...
— History of the Donner Party • C.F. McGlashan
... the balance following him like starved sheep. He stopped before the captain and sank to a seat on a stump. The perspiration stood in great drops on his face and ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... of the mail-bag distributed, and devoured by the eager newsmongers, than active preparations are made for responding. Some men carry pocket-inkstands and write with pens, but the majority use pencils. Here you see one seated on a stump or fence, addressing his "sweet-heart" or somebody else; another writes standing up against a tree, while a third is lying flat on the ground. Thus either in the tents or in the open air, scribbling is going on, ...
— Three Years in the Federal Cavalry • Willard Glazier
... riggin', and a broadside fired. The way I gave it her astonished even myself. Nelson himself could scarce ha' done it better! Well, she struck her colours at the first broadside, an' somehow—I never could make out exactly how—we was sittin' on the stump of a tree with her head on my rough unworthy buzzum. Think o' that! Dan, her head—the head of a Angel! Give us your ...
— The Buffalo Runners - A Tale of the Red River Plains • R.M. Ballantyne
... not see us," the captain said. "We are low in the water, and these stump masts could not be seen at that distance even by ...
— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty


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