4. 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. [Colloq. U.S.]
5. (Cricket) (a) 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. T. Hughes. (b) To
bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket.
Tennyson.
To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang]
Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]
Stump, v. i. To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
To stump up, to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Stump"age (?), n. 1. 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. [Local, U.S.]
Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers
buying stumpage from the owners of land.