(cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket

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.