Usually means: Remains of tree after cutting.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word stump:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. stump: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stump: Merriam-Webster
  3. stump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stump: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stump: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stump, stump: Wordnik
  8. stump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stump: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Stump, stump: Wiktionary
  11. stump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. stump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. stump: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. stump: Dictionary.com
  15. stump (n.), stump (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. stump: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Stump (band), Stump (cricket), Stump (drawing), Stump (surname), Stump, The Stump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Stump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. stump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. stump: Rhymezone
  21. stump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. stump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Stump: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. stump: FreeDictionary.org
  25. stump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Stump: The Word Detective
  27. stump: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stump: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stump: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. stump: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. STUMP: The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  5. stump: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. STUMP: Acronym Finder
  2. stump: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stump, stump, stump, stump, stump, stump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.T.U.M.P, stump: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See stumped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
noun:  (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
noun:  (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
noun:  (slang, humorous) A leg.
noun:  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.
noun:  A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
verb:  (intransitive) To campaign.
verb:  (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
verb:  (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
verb:  (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
verb:  (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
noun:  A surname.

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