Definition of stump

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Stump (n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket..

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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..
Cappeline :: Cappeline (n.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb..
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..
Scumble :: Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect..
Gate :: Gate (n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into..
Stump :: Stump (v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus..
Dump :: Dump (v. t.) To knock heavily; to stump.
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..
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..
Stumped :: Stump (n.) 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..
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Dock :: Dock (n.) The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting..
Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) In crayon drawing, the use of the stump..
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..
Zuche :: Zuche (n.) A stump of a tree.
Stump :: Stumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stum.
Stump-tailed :: Stumpiness (n.) The state of being stumpy.
Stumping :: Stumped (imp. & p. p.) of Stum.
Stump :: Stump (n.) 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..
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