| stump | 1. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. 2. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom. 3. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. 4. One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. 5. A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc, in powder. 6. 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; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. Leg stump, a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump. To go on the stump, or To take the stump, to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. Origin: OE. Stumpe, stompe; akin to D. Stomp, G. Stumpf, Icel. Stumpr, Dan. & Sw. Stump, and perhaps also to E. Stamp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| stump cancer | Carcinoma of the stomach developing after gastroenterostomy or gastric resection for benign disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stump hallucination | The sensation, after amputation of a limb, that the absent part is still present; there may also be paresthesias, transient aches, and intermittent or continuous pain perceived as originating in the absent limb. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stump neuralgia | Pain experienced as coming from an absent part, caused by irritation of neuromas in the scarred tissue of an amputation stump. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stump sprouting | <botany> Sprouts developing from the region between the stem base and the root crown (on the root neck of cut trees). (09 Oct 1997) |
| stump-tailed | Having a short, thick tail. <zoology> Stump-tailed lizard, a singular Australian scincoid lizard (Trachydosaurus rugosus) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form. Synonym: sleeping lizard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stumpage | 1. Timber in standing trees, often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. "Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land." (C. S. Sargent) 2. A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gastric stump | That portion of the stomach remaining after gastric surgery, usually gastrectomy or gastroenterostomy for cancer of the stomach or peptic ulcer. It is a common site of cancer referred to as stump cancer or carcinoma of the gastric stump. (12 Dec 1998) |
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the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her" stomp: walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast" (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket dais: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it remove tree stumps from; "stump a field"
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The woody base of a tree that remains in the ground after felling.
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The wickets at each end of the pitch are made up of three wooden stumps.
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A word commonly used to refer to the residual limb.
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The lower end of a tree remaining in the ground after most of the stem or trunk has been removed
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| stump | a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it |
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| stump | (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket |
| stump | the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed |
| stump | the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled |
| stump | remove tree stumps from |
| stump | cause to be perplexed or confounded |
| stump | travel through a district and make political speeches |
| stump | walk heavily |
| stump | political oratory |
| stump | a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds |
| stump | a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem |
| stump | campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches) |
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