Definition of stump

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Stump (n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

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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..
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..
Stumper :: Stumper (n.) A boastful person.
Gate :: Gate (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into..
Runt :: Runt (a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant..
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.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps..
Stumper :: Stumper (n.) One who stumps.
Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
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..
Sauce :: Sauce (n.) A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
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..
Stump-tailed :: Stumpiness (n.) The state of being stumpy.
Stumpy :: Stumpy (a.) Full of stumps; hard; strong.
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..
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Stubbled :: Stubble (n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle..
Stumping :: Stumped (imp. & p. p.) of Stum.
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
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