base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
stump (noun)1.
a) the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed
b) a rudimentary or vestigial bodily part
2.
the part of a plant and especially a tree remaining attached to the root after the trunk is cut
3.
a remaining part - stub
4.
one of the pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a cricket wicket
5.
a place or occasion for public speaking (as for a cause or candidate) , also the circuit followed by a maker of such speeches - used especially in the phrase on the stump
transitive verb
1.
to reduce to a stump - trim
2.
a) - dare challenge
b) to frustrate the progress or efforts of - baffle
3.
to clear (land) of - stumps
4.
to travel over (a region) making political speeches or supporting a cause
5.
a) to walk over heavily or clumsily
intransitive verb
b) - stub
1.
to walk heavily or clumsily
2.
to go about making political speeches or supporting a cause
a short thick roll of leather, felt, or paper usually pointed at both ends and used for shading or blending a drawing in crayon, pencil, charcoal, pastel, or chalk
transitive verb
to tone or treat (a drawing) with a stump
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Stump may refer to:
- Stump (band), a band from Cork, Ireland and London, England
- Stump (cricket), one of three small wooden posts which the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball
- A rare tumour of the uterine smooth muscle or prostatic stroma, see STUMP (disambiguation)
- Stump (drawing), an artists' drawing tool made of rolled paper
- 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
- A coastal landform which forms when a stack (geology) is eroded
- Stump (surname) a surname