n. | 1. | The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. |
| 2. | 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. |
| 3. | The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. |
| 4. | (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. |
| 5. | 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. |
| 6. | 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. |
v. t. | 1. | To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop. |
| 2. | To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. |
| 3. | To challenge; also, to nonplus. |
| 4. | 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. |
| 5. | (Cricket) 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. |
v. i. | 1. | To walk clumsily, as if on stumps. |