Stump vs. Stumpy

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Stumpnoun

The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.

Stumpnoun

(politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.

Stumpnoun

(figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.

Stumpnoun

(cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.

Stumpnoun

(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.

Stumpnoun

A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.

Stumpnoun

A leg.

Stumpnoun

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.

Stumpnoun

A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Stumpverb

To stop, confuse, or puzzle.

Stumpverb

To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.

Stumpverb

(intransitive) To campaign.

Stumpverb

To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.

Stumpverb

To get a batsman out stumped.

Stumpverb

To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).

Stumpverb

(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.

Stumpverb

(transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.

Stumpverb

(transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

Stumpnoun

The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

Stumpnoun

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.

Stumpnoun

The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.

Stumpnoun

One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

Stumpnoun

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.

Stumpnoun

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.

Stumpverb

To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

Stumpverb

To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.

Stumpverb

To challenge; also, to nonplus.

Stumpverb

To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.

Stumpverb

To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; - sometimes with out.

Stumpverb

To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

Stumpnoun

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

Stumpnoun

the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed

Stumpnoun

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

Stumpnoun

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

Stumpverb

cause to be perplexed or confounded;

Stumpverb

walk heavily;

Stumpverb

travel through a district and make political speeches;

Stumpverb

remove tree stumps from;

Stumpyadjective

Like or resembling a stump; short and cut off.

Stumpyadjective

Full of stumps.

Stumpynoun

(slang) An amputee who has lost a leg.

Stumpyadjective

Full of stumps; hard; strong.

Stumpyadjective

Short and thick; stubby.

Stumpyadjective

short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature;

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