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A lumberjack might leave one behind
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stump
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE off ▪ Then two byes low past the off stump , horror or horrors. ▪ John Glendenen was dropped at gully on two and also survived a couple of injudicious waves outside the off stump . ▪ Then I got a short one outside ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"part of a tree trunk left in the ground after felling," mid-15c. (implied from late 13c. in surnames); from mid-14c. as "remaining part of a severed arm or leg;" from or cognate with Middle Low German stump (from adjective meaning "mutilated, blunt, dull"), ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. 2 (context politics English) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. 3 (context figurative English) A place or occasion ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled [syn: tree stump ] the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket a platform raised above ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stump \Stump\, n. [OE. stumpe, stompe; akin to D. stomp, G. stumpf, Icel. stumpr, Dan. & Sw. stump, and perhaps also to E. stamp.] The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. The part of a limb or other ...
Usage examples of stump.
The stump of a stem protruded from the amplexicaul curve at the top, as if it had been a real apple.
It lay behind the stump of the amputated cervix, in the culdesac of Douglas.
Grafts from the rabbit and dog failed, and the skin from the amputated stump of a boy was employed, and the patient was able to leave the hospital in seven months.
The amputated finger was wrapped up in a piece of brown paper, and, being apparently healthy and the wound absolutely clean, it was fixed in the normal position on the stump, and covered by a bichlorid dressing.
His fellow-workmen, without delay, wound a piece of rope around each bleeding member, and the man recovered after primary amputation of each stump.
TK, come evening, would plod up and down his neighborhood street, watching the shadows, listening for sounds, the defensive knot in his chest expanding into a tumor of inferred danger as the stump of his leg ached with an immediacy that only an amputee could know.
A little farther along we came to the barkless stump of the tree to which Mr.
When she saw him throw his bearskin aside, revealing a red-stained wicker bowl held firmly between the stump of his arm and his waist, incredulous joy flushed her face.
Frost pulled his eyes away from the bloodied stump of the neck and gingerly touched the flesh of her arm.
Then Lobkyn stooped the broken stump to seize, Bowed brawny back and with a wondrous ease Up by the roots the rugged bole he tore And tossed it far as it had been a straw.
The new technology of radio had forced briskness and brevity on professional speakers, such as politicians, who were accustomed to orating on the stump for three hours at a stretch, and preachers, sometimes drilling words into their listeners at speeds that reached two hundred words a minute.
Sanguine Mountain rived the earth, Hilel and his horse-traders had selected a brushy, steep-sided ravine and blocked the ends with stumps and slash.
But when will their misnamed liberty have its true emblem in that Stump, hewn down by British steel?
With Di An as his guide, Mors went to the stump of a broken column and sat down.
They raised the spears overarm and began to stump forward, shouting each time their left feet hit the ground.