Definitions
1.nounThe remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
2.nounThe place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
3.nounA place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
4.nounOne of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
5.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.
6.nounA wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
7.nounA leg."to stir one's stumps"
8.nounA 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.
9.nounA pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
10.verbTo stop, confuse, or puzzle.
11.verbTo baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem."This last question has me stumped."
12.verbTo campaign."He’s been stumping for that reform for months."
13.verbTo travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
14.verb(of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
15.verbTo bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
16.verbTo walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
17.verbTo reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
18.verbTo strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.