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Meanings of stump in English

Wikidata

One of the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket.

        Wikidata

        The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled.

              Portuguese
              tribuna
              Catalan
              podi
              Spanish
              podio

              A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it.

                  tribuna
                  Portuguese
                  pisar com força
                  Catalan
                  caminar feixugamnet

                  Walk heavily.

                        pisar com força
                        Usage of stump in English
                        1
                        Good question. She beamed; it was considered a coup to stump me.
                        Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
                        2
                        The last remaining question is who will stump up 2 billion euros.
                        Reuters
                        3
                        President Clinton and Hillary came to the state to stump for me.
                        True compass: a memoir
                        4
                        But she passed him in the room and touched the stump first.
                        The Little House in the Fairy Wood
                        5
                        Now there stood in the plain the stump of a wild olive-tree.
                        The Children's Hour, Volume 3 (of 10) / Stories from the Classic...
                        6
                        Nothing in the heavens above or the earth below could stump him.
                        The Big-Town Round-Up
                        7
                        He then notched the stump, and threw the animal into the pit.
                        The Pacha of Many Tales
                        8
                        But this is stump-the-professor time and so it's never the common thing.
                        Every patient tells a story: medical mysteries and the art of di...
                        9
                        Here was the stump of the whipping-post cut even with the ground.
                        A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Havilan...
                        10
                        He took the stump soon after the adjournment of the Thirty-seventh Congress.
                        Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
                        11
                        Obviously the spell bomb had left her as thick as a stump.
                        Darkness unleashed
                        12
                        It was low outside off stump, and he scorched it through point.
                        The Guardian
                        13
                        She picked up the stump and threw it out of the window.
                        Mother
                        14
                        She sat down on a stump; she had quite forgotten the party.
                        The Californians
                        15
                        The average cost of the removal of each stump is shown below:
                        A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washing...
                        16
                        Strapped to the stump of his right wrist was an iron hand.
                        A clash of kings
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