Etymology From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.
The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
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Government, Politics The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
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Figuratively A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump!'1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
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Ball games, Cricket, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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.
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An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
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A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
Etymology From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.
A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
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To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
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To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
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To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.