Definition of stump

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Stumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stum.

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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 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..
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub..
Stump :: Stump (n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps..
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..
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..
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus..
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..
Stumper :: Stumper (n.) One who stumps.
Zuche :: Zuche (n.) A stump of a tree.
Stumper :: Stumpage (n.) A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber..
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Stump :: Stump (n.) 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..
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) 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..
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..
Stump :: Stump (n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket..
Stump-tailed :: Stumpiness (n.) The state of being stumpy.
Stumper :: Stumper (n.) A boastful person.
Stumping :: Stumped (imp. & p. p.) of Stum.
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..
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