# stump
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stʌmp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌmp

### Noun

stump (plural stumps)
* The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
* (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
* (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!'
* (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.
* (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.
* A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
* (slang, humorous) A leg.
    to stir one's stumps
* 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 pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

#### Derived terms

* beyond the black stump
* black stump
* call it stumps
* chopping stump
* dumb as a stump
* fourth stump
* gump stump
* gump-stump
* leg stump
* middle stump
* off stump
* on the stump
* pull up stumps
* rump and stump
* stir one's stumps
* stump and rump
* stump cam
* stump camera
* stump cutter
* stump detective
* stump dump
* stump grinder
* stump it
* stump orator
* stump out
* stump powder
* stumps
* stump speech
* stump-tailed macaque
* stump tracery
* stump-water
* stumpy
* take the stump
* this side of the black stump
* tree stump
* up a stump
* up the stump

#### Translations
### Verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)
* (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
* (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
    This last question has me stumped.
* (intransitive) To campaign.
    Synonym: campaign
    He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
* (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
* (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
* (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
** 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.
* (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
** 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150: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.
* (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
* (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

#### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

#### Related terms

* stumped

#### Translations
### See also

* stump up

### Further reading

* “stump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “stump”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “stump”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* tumps

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

stump (neuter stumpt, plural and definite singular attributive stumpe, comparative stumpere, superlative (predicative) stumpest, superlative (attributive) stumpeste)
* blunt
    en stump genstand
       a blunt instrument
* (geometry) obtuse

#### Derived terms

* (blunt): stump genstand
* (obtuse): stump trekant, stump vinkel, stumpvinklet

### Noun

stump c (singular definite stumpen, plural indefinite stumper)
* 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
### Further reading

* “stump” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “stump” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Hunsrik
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃtump/

### Adjective

stump
* dull, blunt

### Further reading

* Online Hunsrik Dictionary

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

### Noun

stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumper, definite plural stumpene)
* a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
* (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

#### Derived terms

* gatestump

### References

* “stump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

### Noun

stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumpar, definite plural stumpane)
* a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
* (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

#### Derived terms

* gatestump

### References

* “stump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

stump c
* 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)

#### Derived terms

* benstump
* cigarettstump
* cigarrstump
* fimp
* gatstump
* ljusstump
* pennstump
* repstump
* snörstump
* stumpa
* svansstump
* vägstump

### References

* stump in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* stump in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* stump in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* stump in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)