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Meanings of stump (stumps) in English
One of the three vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket.
Portuguese
pisar com força Catalan
caminar feixugamnet Synonyms
Examples for "pulpit"
Examples for "pulpit"
1
The people stood in the aisles from the rear to the pulpit.
2
Gyer made a note of it for future use in the pulpit.
3
The carved pulpit in the interior of the church is also remarkable.
4
He is unassuming in manner, blithe in company, earnest in the pulpit.
5
In the pulpit he drives forward in the same earnest, matter-of-fact style.
1
The podium finish was Woods' best result ever at a European competition.
2
Today and yesterday there were no Dutch on the podium, Lorentzen said.
3
Colorado State University was second with Drexel University rounding out the podium.
4
When Rapp reached the podium, he repeated Tutwiler's question to the group.
5
Let's hope they're dancing on that great glittery podium in the sky.
1
The King took his place on the dais and watched the dancing.
2
In the centre of the dais stood a third chair- acrimsonone-empty
3
There on the raised dais sate the sovereign of half the world.
4
The duke left the hall by a small door near the dais.
5
On a dais in the Great Hall were now four golden thrones.
1
At length the genial Mr. Primrose in the rostrum addressed the audience.
2
Mr. Gromyko took over the rostrum & plodded along grimly in Russian.
3
He's the Adonis of the rostrum, the Apollo Belvidere of the bema.
4
There was an enormous military band on the platform behind the rostrum.
5
Mr. Absolom listened for a while and then returned to the rostrum.
1
After that, he must move his soapbox to another clearly marked area.
2
One hour of practice jumping off a soapbox completed without any incidents.
3
Every soapbox apostle in the district had at one time converted him.
4
But while others built treehouses and soapbox racers, they built flying machines.
5
Join Spectrum's Lisa Thompson for a day at the races, soapbox style.
1
He didn't have any vitals when they put him in the ambo.
2
If there was an ambo, Edgerton tells himself, it's long gone.
3
He finishes off the first page with the time of the ambo crew's pronouncement.
4
Can't have foreign presidents deciding who our ambo should be.
5
They are 'Arcades ambo et cantare pares et respondere parati.'
Usage of stumps in English
1
I'm really looking for a great question, one that maybe stumps me.
2
The forest was invisible, and so were the stumps in the clearing.
3
Even the sawdust pyramids and the stumps are magnificent in their desolation.
4
Some locusts make their holes in fence rails or in old stumps.
5
He did not mind what stumps and logs were in the way.
6
So it's a challenge for me to try and hit the stumps.
7
Look for the vague path between the stumps along the river edge.
8
The wings, mere scanty stumps, hardly reach the middle of the abdomen.
9
He fell back with a howl with both stumps in the air.
10
She stumps her hands on her hips and regards me a moment.
11
The side which hits the stumps most times shall be the winner.
12
They threw him their life-preservers and the stumps of the broken oars.
13
Rocks and stumps were in their way, and underfoot it was slippery.
14
By the end of the day there was nothing but shattered stumps.
15
Our bowlers were absolutely outstanding, as was Sarah Taylor behind the stumps.
16
Or was it merely the flickering shadows of posts and tree stumps.
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Australia
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New Zealand
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United Kingdom
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