STUMP

Presumably, a stump rooted in the soil, and not, at least under the circumstances of the case cited, a stump cast upon a highway.4 Stumpage. The price paid for a license to enter upon another's land, to cut down standing trees, and to remove the timber.5 See TIMBER.

The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. 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. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [Slang] One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. 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. 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. 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.]

To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. Dr. H. More. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. [Colloq.] To challenge; also, to nonplus. [Colloq.] 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.] 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. To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket. A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket. Tennyson. To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]

To walk clumsily, as if on stumps. To stump up, to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. | The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. | A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. | 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. | 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. | A leg. | 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.

To stop, confuse, or puzzle. | To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem. | To campaign. | To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes. | To get a batsman out stumped. | To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket). | To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge. | To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of. | To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

A surname.