EGAVE

stump

About 2.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  2. noun The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  3. noun A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
  4. noun 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. noun 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. noun A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  7. noun A leg.
    to stir one's stumps
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

tree stump soapbox stamp stomp mix up rostrum dais podium pulpit ambo

Often followed by

of and is in to or was with for

Word family

stumped stumper stumpers stumping stumps

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