stump meaning
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[stʌmp] [-ʌmp] WStump
- Stump may refer to:
- Stump (band), a band from Cork, Ireland
- Stump (cricket), one of three small wooden posts which the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball
- Stump (drawing), an artists' drawing tool made of rolled paper
- Stump (game), an American drinking game
- USS Stump (DD-978), a Spruance-class destroyer
- Tree stump, the rooted remains of a felled tree
- Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee (born 1998), 2009 "Best In Show" winner at the Westminster Dog Show, nicknamed Stump
- The remains of a limb after amputation
- NounPLstumps
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- (figuratively) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- (cricket) 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.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
- to stir one's stumps
- 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 pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- VerbSGstumpsPRstumpingPT, PPstumped
- (transitive) to stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- This last question has me stumped.
- (intransitive) to campaign.
- He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
- (transitive, US, colloquial) to travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) to bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (intransitive) to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (transitive) to stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Jim stumped up for the cinema tickets, and I paid for the coffees afterwards.
- "The stump was dipped in boiling oil to cicatrize the wound." - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
- The woodworks now find utilization for almost every scrap. Pine stumps are changing into turpentine bottles.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of stump in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "stump" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.