STUMP

dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox

(noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

stump

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

stump

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

stump, tree stump

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

stump

(verb) remove tree stumps from; “stump a field”

stump, mix up

(verb) cause to be perplexed or confounded; “This problem stumped her”

stump

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

stomp, stamp, stump

(verb) walk heavily; “The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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.

(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.

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.

Verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple 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.

(intransitive) To campaign.

Synonym: campaign

(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).

(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.

Anagrams

• tumps

Proper noun

Stump (plural Stumps)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Stump is the 2539^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 14257 individuals. Stump is most common among White (93.65%) individuals.

Anagrams

• tumps

Source: Wiktionary

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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.

Definition: The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [Slang]

4. (Cricket)

Definition: 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, 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, v. i.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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