What is the meaning of STUMP. Phrases containing STUMP
See meanings and uses of STUMP!Slangs & AI meanings
A man who preaches from the stump of a tree, or other elevation.
Stupid, lame, crap person. Used as "You elm". This may have been specific to the contributors school as it started the summer they cut down all the Elm trees thanks to Dutch Elm Disease, and their field was left with stumps of rotting trees... an obvious name for someone useless, then.
Stumps is slang for the legs.
Stumpy was old slang for money.
A puzzler.
long way away ‘He lives way past the black stump.’
A plump white coloured grub like creature (Worm) found in old logs or rotting tree stumps. Favoured by the Aborigine as a tasty entree
The sum paid to owners of land for the privilege of cutting the timber growing thereon.
Stump was old slang for money. Stump was old slang for go away. Stump is slang for penniless.
Black stump is Australian slang for a long way away or the horizon.
Pump the stump is Black−American slang for to shake hands
Beat the Devil around the Stump
To evade responsibility or a difficult task. "Quit beatin' the devil around the stump and ask that girl to marry you."
a term of reproach for a girl
means to go beyond civilization, end up in the middle of nowhere. "Beyond the Black Stump" is also a novel by British author Nevil Shute, published in 1956.
Far-off areas in the outback. See also Black Stump
Stump it is slang for to run away; to escape.
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v. i.
To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
n.
A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.
n.
In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.
n.
The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
n.
The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
n.
Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared.
v. t.
To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stump
n.
To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
n.
The state of being stumpy.
n.
A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
n.
To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out.
imp. & p. p.
of Stump
a.
Full of stumps; hard; strong.
n.
One who stumps.
a.
The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
n.
A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
v. t.
To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect.
n.
A stump of a tree.
v. t.
To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
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