| Stump | n. [ OE. stumpe, stompe; akin to D. stomp, G. stumpf, Icel. stumpr, Dan. & Sw. stump, and perhaps also to E. stamp. ] 1. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. pl. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 6. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. --
Off stump (Cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman. --
Stump tracery (Arch.), a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump. --
To go on the stump, or
To take the stump, to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [ Colloq. U.S. ] --
on the stump campaigning for public office; running for election to office. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
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| Stump | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Stumped p. pr. & vb. n. Stumping. ] 1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. [ 1913 Webster ] Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 4. 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. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 5. (Cricket) (a) 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. T. Hughes. (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket. [ 1913 Webster ] A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
And stumped the wicket. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [ Slang ] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Stumpage | n. 1. 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. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. C. S. Sargent. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [ Local, U.S. ] The Nation. [ 1913 Webster ] |
