English Explanatory Dictionary

stump

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  2. The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  3. A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
  4. 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.
  5. An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
  6. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  7. A leg.
  8. 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.
  9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
verb
  1. To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
  2. To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
  3. To campaign.
  4. To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
  5. To get a batsman out stumped.
  6. To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
  7. To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
  8. To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
  9. To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/stʌmp/ en-us-stump.ogg en-au-stump.ogg

Word forms

stump stumps stumping stumped no-table-tags glossary stumpest stumpedst stumpeth

Etymology

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

Synonyms

stub campaign

Related words

stumped stump up

Derived words

beyond the black stump black stump bleeding stump call it stumps chopping stump dumb as a stump fourth stump gump stump gump-stump leg stump middle stump off stump on the stump pull up stumps restump rump and stump stir one's stumps stumpage stump and rump stump cam stump camera stump cutter stump detective stump dump stumpery stump grinder stumphole stumpie stumpify stumpish stump it stumpitis stumpland stumpless stumplike stumpling stumpnose stump orator stump out stump powder stumps stump speech stump stabber stump-tailed macaque stump tracery stump-water stumpwork stumpy take the stump this side of the black stump treestump tree stump up a stump up the stump unstumpable

Translations

Bulgarian: озадачавам Chinese Mandarin: 难住 Czech: vyvést z míry Czech: zarazit Finnish: hämmentää Finnish: sekoittaa German: ratlos sein German: verblüfft sein German: mit seiner Weisheit am Ende sein Māori: whakahanepī Spanish: no tener ni idea de cómo contestar Spanish: estar sin respuesta Turkish: afallamak
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