Stump

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
2. isim The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
3. isim A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.

   “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. isim 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. isim 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. isim A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
7. isim A leg.

   “to stir one's stumps”

8. isim 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. isim A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
10. fiil To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
11. fiil To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.

    “This last question has me stumped.”

12. fiil To campaign.

    “He’s been stumping for that reform for months.”

13. fiil To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
14. fiil To get a batsman out stumped.
15. fiil To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).

    “A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.”

16. fiil To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.

    “Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.”

17. fiil To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
18. fiil To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
19. özel isim A surname.