I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
off
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Then two byes low past the off stump , horror or horrors.
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John Glendenen was dropped at gully on two and also survived a couple of injudicious waves outside the off stump .
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Then I got a short one outside the off stump - four, to go to 96.
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Pringle's feeble push forward failed to save his off stump .
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He advanced on him only for an exquisite googly to dip and dart through the gap to bruise the off stump .
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If he drops it short on the off stump , cut him.
■ NOUN
leg
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No shot surpassed Hollioake's square-\#leg six off Harvey, which he contrived to play outside leg stump .
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He let the next ball go by outside leg stump .
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The bowler adjusted his line and dropped the next one on leg stump , on the half-volley.
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They're all taking leg stump instead of middle.
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Dermot Reeve clipped Waqar's first delivery for a single but his second ball uprooted last man Richard Illingworth's leg stump .
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Once more he struggled to maintain a line that did not drift towards leg stump .
speech
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Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefree promises of the stump speech .
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Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.
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They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech .
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No soap box, no stump speech , no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.
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Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standard stump speech , either.
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His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with polite applause.
tree
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The elder female sank down on a tree stump to rest, fanning herself with her hand.
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Clearing two acres of tree stumps so a garden could be planted in the spring.
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Alligator saw; a tree stump chipper; and even a bouncy castle!
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They said they brought the tree stump to Riggs' office as a symbol of protest.
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His left leg was almost severed when it was caught in the whirling blade of a tree stump cutter.
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We were going to the thick grove of woods with the carved tree stumps in its center.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All that was left was a stump of what used to be a statue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He looked down, and saw the planks beneath his shoe and stump turn transparent.
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It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump .
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The stump she sits on is as dead as she is blind.
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They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticket delivered a persuasive stump speech.
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They said they brought the tree stump to Riggs' office as a symbol of protest.
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You have to trench around the stump and sever all the roots.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Harkin plans to stump in Illinois this weekend.
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The case has stumped the police for months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Carroll Campbell, both Republicans, are stumping the state on behalf of Sen.
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City must stump up the cash and planned to watch Viscaal yesterday against Mechelin.
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He stumped like an old man.
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He loves it when we stump him, when he has to go look up something.
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He was stumped for the second time in the match against the left-arm spin of Hettiarachchi.
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No, we were stumped for questions to ask.
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You read the reviews, make up your mind and stump up the cash.