STUMP


Meaning of STUMP in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

off

Then two byes low past the off stump , horror or horrors.

John Glendenen was dropped at gully on two and also survived a couple of injudicious waves outside the off stump .

Then I got a short one outside the off stump - four, to go to 96.

Pringle's feeble push forward failed to save his off stump .

He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump .

If he drops it short on the off stump , cut him.

■ NOUN

leg

No shot surpassed Hollioake's square-\#leg six off Harvey, which he contrived to play outside leg stump .

He let the next ball go by outside leg stump .

The bowler adjusted his line and dropped the next one on leg stump , on the half-volley.

They're all taking leg stump instead of middle.

Dermot Reeve clipped Waqar's first delivery for a single but his second ball uprooted last man Richard Illingworth's leg stump .

Once more he struggled to maintain a line that did not drift towards leg stump .

speech

Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefree promises of the stump speech .

Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.

They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech .

No soap box, no stump speech , no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.

Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standard stump speech , either.

His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with polite applause.

tree

The elder female sank down on a tree stump to rest, fanning herself with her hand.

Clearing two acres of tree stumps so a garden could be planted in the spring.

Alligator saw; a tree stump chipper; and even a bouncy castle!

They said they brought the tree stump to Riggs' office as a symbol of protest.

His left leg was almost severed when it was caught in the whirling blade of a tree stump cutter.

We were going to the thick grove of woods with the carved tree stumps in its center.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

All that was left was a stump of what used to be a statue.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He looked down, and saw the planks beneath his shoe and stump turn transparent.

It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump .

The stump she sits on is as dead as she is blind.

They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech.

They said they brought the tree stump to Riggs' office as a symbol of protest.

You have to trench around the stump and sever all the roots.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Harkin plans to stump in Illinois this weekend.

The case has stumped the police for months.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Carroll Campbell, both Republicans, are stumping the state on behalf of Sen.

City must stump up the cash and planned to watch Viscaal yesterday against Mechelin.

He stumped like an old man.

He loves it when we stump him, when he has to go look up something.

He was stumped for the second time in the match against the left-arm spin of Hettiarachchi.

No, we were stumped for questions to ask.

You read the reviews, make up your mind and stump up the cash.

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