4. (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form
a wicket and support the bails.
5. A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any
similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil
drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and
gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
6. 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 fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a
guide for a movable piece.
Leg stump (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman. -- Off stump
(Cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman. -- Stump tracery
(Arch.), a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which
the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is
then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end
of each similar stump. -- To go on the stump, or To take the stump, to
engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a
phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's
platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump
orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U.S.]
Stump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stumping.] 1.
To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Around the stumped top soft moss did grow.
Dr. H. More.
2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
[Colloq.]