stump
- Noun. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- Noun. (politics) The place where a campaign takes place.
- Noun. (politics) An occasion at which the campaign takes place.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (context, 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.
- Noun. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- Verb. (transitive) to stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- Verb. (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- Verb. (intransitive) to campaign.
- Verb. (transitive, cricket) to get a batsman out stumped.
- Verb. (intransitive) to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
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