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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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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. |
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The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. |
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One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a
wicket and support the bails. |
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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. |
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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. |
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To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. |
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To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something
fixed; to stub. |
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To challenge; also, to nonplus. |
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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. |
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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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To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket. |
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To walk clumsily, as if on stumps. |
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