Stump Definition
stŭmp
stumped, stumping, stumps
noun
stumps
The lower end of a tree or plant remaining in the ground after most of the stem or trunk has been cut off.
Webster's New World
Anything like a stump.
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A part, as of a branch, limb, or tooth, remaining after the main part has been cut away, broken off, or worn down.
American Heritage Medicine
The sound of a heavy, clumsy, tramping step.
Webster's New World
An artificial leg.
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verb
stumped, stumping, stumps
To reduce to a stump; lop.
Webster's New World
To remove stumps from (land)
Webster's New World
To walk with a heavy, clumsy, thumping step, as with a wooden leg.
Webster's New World
To stub (one's toes, etc.)
Webster's New World
To tone down or soften with a stump.
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idiom
up a stump
- unable to act, think, answer, etc.; in a dilemma; perplexed
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Origin of Stump
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From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump"), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump"), from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off"), from Proto-Indo-European *stÁb(h)-, *stemb(h)- (“to support, stamp, become angry, be astonished"). Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump"), Old High German stumph (German Stumpf, “stump"), Old Norse stumpr (“stump"). More at stop.
From Wiktionary
Middle English stumpe possibly from Middle Low German stump
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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