Definitions for stump

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Spelling: [stuhmp]

IPA: /stʌmp/

Stump is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in stump (mpstu).

Definitions for stump

noun

1. the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
2. the part of a limb of the body remaining after the rest has been cut off.
3. a part of a broken or decayed tooth left in the gum.
4. a short remnant, as of a candle; stub.
5. any basal part remaining after the main or more important part has been removed.
6. an artificial leg.
7. Usually, stumps. Informal. legs:
8. a short, stocky person.
9. a heavy step or gait, as of a wooden-legged or lame person.
10. the figurative place of political speechmaking:
11. Furniture. a support for the front end of the arm of a chair, sofa, etc. Compare post1 (def 2).
12. a short, thick roll of paper, soft leather, or some similar material, usually having a blunt point, for rubbing a pencil, charcoal, or crayon drawing in order to achieve subtle gradations of tone in representing light and shade.
13. Cricket. each of the three upright sticks that, with the two bails laid on top of them, form a wicket.

Idioms

1. up a stump, Informal. at a loss; embarrassed; perplexed:

verb (used with object)

1. to reduce to a stump; truncate; lop.
2. to clear of stumps, as land.
3. Chiefly Southern U.S. to stub, as one's toe.
4. to nonplus, embarrass, or render completely at a loss:
5. to challenge or dare to do something.
6. to make political campaign speeches to or in:
7. Cricket. (of the wicketkeeper) to put (a batsman) out by knocking down a stump or by dislodging a bail with the ball held in the hand at a moment when the batsman is off his ground.
8. to tone or modify (a crayon drawing, pencil rendering, etc.) by means of a stump.

verb (used without object)

1. to walk heavily or clumsily, as if with a wooden leg:
2. to make political campaign speeches; electioneer.

Origin of stump

1200-50; (noun) Middle English stompe, cognate with or Middle Low German stump(e), Middle Dutch stomp (compare German Stumpf); (v.) Middle English stumpen to stumble (as over a stump), deriva

Examples for stump

As Cochran said on the stump and in ads, he is a pro-life, NRA-endorsed conservative who opposes Obamacare.

"You're just about as satisfying to talk to as a stump," she paid tribute to his unassailable calm.

Many a rod, I grieve to say, was worn to the stump on that unlucky night.

Republicans and Democrats love bashing lobbyists on the stump.

Looking to turn back the tide or at least hold it back for one more election, Clinton will stump in Benton County next week.

Then she wagged the stump of her tail, and they considered themselves acquainted.

He looked at the stump, then at the sign, with his little pig-like eyes.

Mr. Halloway had learned a certain perceptiveness on the stump.

Plus “The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth/And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath”?

They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech.