Stumps Definition

noun

(cricket) Plural form of stump.

The wicket is made from three stumps and two bails.
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(uncountable, cricket) Close of play (when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires)
England still have a chance of winning tomorrow if they can get India out before stumps today.
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Synonyms:
  • projections
  • butts
  • pieces
  • pulpits
  • podia
  • rostra
  • ambones
verb

Present participle of stump.

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Stumps Sentence Examples

  • Actually, her legs felt like stumps and her groin muscles were knotted with pain.

  • You use this lever to lower the sickle, like this and then lift it over stumps and such.

  • The higher Australian peaks in the south-east look just what they are, the worn and denuded stumps of mountains, standing for untold ages above the sea.

  • Sawdust, slabs, stumps and large quantities of logs are wasted.

  • Similar granitic intrusions occurred in New South Wales and Queensland, and built up a mountain chain, which ran north and south across the continent; its worn-down stumps now form the east Australian highlands.

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