Stump /(?)/

Stump

n.
  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. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [Slang]
  4. One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. (Cricket)
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
Leg stump
the stump nearest to the batsman.
Off stump
the stump farthest from the batsman.
Stump tracery
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
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.

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.
  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. 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. (Cricket)
    A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket.

Phrases & Compounds
To stump it
To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape

Stump

v. i.
  1. To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

Phrases & Compounds
To stump up
to pay cash.