Definitions for stumps

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stumps stump

Spelling: [stuhmp]

IPA: /stʌmp/

Stumps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in stumps (mpsstu).

Definitions for stumps

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 stumps

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 stumps

The palm trees have gone, leaving a desolate wasteland of stumps reaching into the sky.

For simplicity's sake, I represent them merely as stumps (e e, Fig. 1).

It is found in woods, on logs and stumps, from August to November.

This genus abounds wherever there are stumps and fallen timber.

It is found on logs, stumps, and especially on old sawdust piles.

The one thing that both the state and the defense can agree upon here is that Pistorius was on his stumps during the shooting.

They are found in woods, in old pastures by logs and stumps, and in lawns.

Dixon presented a photo in which he used an assistant to show that Stipp could not have seen Pistorius on his stumps.

It grows in woods and open places, on stumps and logs of various kinds.

It is found on stumps or decayed logs during September and October.