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stump

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A large stump.

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From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

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stump (plural stumps)

 
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  1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  2. (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  3. (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
    • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
      Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump!'
  4. (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.
  5. (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.
  6. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  7. (slang, humorous) A leg.
    to stir one's stumps
  8. 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.
  9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

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Verb

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stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

  1. (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
  2. (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
    This last question has me stumped.
  3. (intransitive) To campaign.
    Synonym: campaign
    He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
  4. (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
  5. (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
  6. (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
  7. (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
  8. (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
  9. (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of stump
infinitive (to) stump
present tense past tense
1st-person singular stump stumped
2nd-person singular stump, stumpest† stumped, stumpedst†
3rd-person singular stumps, stumpeth† stumped
plural stump
subjunctive stump stumped
imperative stump —
participles stumping stumped

†Archaic or obsolete.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German stump, from Old Saxon *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

Adjective

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stump (neuter stumpt, plural and definite singular attributive stumpe, comparative stumpere, superlative (predicative) stumpest, superlative (attributive) stumpeste)

  1. blunt
    en stump genstand
    a blunt instrument
  2. (geometry) obtuse

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Noun

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stump c (singular definite stumpen, plural indefinite stumper)

  1. stump, piece
    • 2015, Haruki Murakami, Mænd uden kvinder, Klim, →ISBN:
      Det eneste, der er tilbage, er en gammel stump viskelæder og sømændenes fjerne klagesange.
      All that is left is an old piece of an eraser and the distant elegies of the sailors.

Declension

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Declension of stump
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative stump stumpen stumper stumperne
genitive stumps stumpens stumpers stumpernes

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Hunsrik

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Etymology

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From Middle High German stumpf, from late Old High German stumph, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

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stump

  1. dull, blunt

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

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stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumper, definite plural stumpene)

  1. a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
  2. (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

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stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumpar, definite plural stumpane)

  1. a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
  2. (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish stumper, from Old Norse stumpr, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

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stump c

  1. a stump (something which has been cut off or continuously shortened, like for example as a very short pencil or what is left of a cut-off finger)

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Declension of stump
nominative genitive
singular indefinite stump stumps
definite stumpen stumpens
plural indefinite stumpar stumpars
definite stumparna stumparnas

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