Category:Stump

Stump, n. Etym: [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.

Defn: the legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [slang]

4. (cricket)

Defn: 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. Leg stump (cricket), the stump nearest to The batsman. -- off stump (cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman. -- stump tracery (arch.), a term used to describe late german gothic Tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its Convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the Molding is seen at the end of each similar stump. -- to go on the stump, or to take the stump, to engage in making Public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived From the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly- Settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump Speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [colloq. U.s.]

Stump Stump, v. 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, n. [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 Stump, v. i.

Defn: to walk clumsily, as if on stumps. To stump up, to pay cash. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.