Definition of stump

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Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

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Stubby :: Stubborn (a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule..
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus..
Stumpy :: Stump-tailed (a.) Having a short, thick tail..
Stumper :: Stumper (n.) A boastful person.
Stumper :: Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber..
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub..
Outer :: Outer (a.) Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump in cricket; the outer world..
Stumpage :: Stumpage (n.) Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared..
Sprout :: Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch..
Snag :: Snag (n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance..
Stump :: Stump (n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps..
Stunned :: Stumpy (a.) Short and thick; stubby.
Stumpy :: Stumpy (a.) Full of stumps; hard; strong.
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..
Extract :: Extract (v. t.) To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger..
Sauce :: Sauce (n.) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
Stub :: Stub (n.) The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub..
Cappeline :: Cappeline (n.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb..
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