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stump | American Dictionary

stump
noun[ C ]
us/stʌmp/

stumpnoun[C] (PART LEFT)

the part of a tree, arm, etc. that is left after another part has been removed
stump
verb
us/stʌmp/

stumpverb (CONFUSE)

[ T ]
to confuse or cause someone to be unable to understand or explain something:
He seemed stumped by our questions.

stumpverb (SPEAK)

[ I ]
to talk in support of a politician or idea:
Taylor stumped for him throughout the state.

Examples of stump

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By convention tree diameter is measured at 1.30 m height, however, stumps were always lower, so diameter at the saw-plane was chosen.
The stumps were set in a matrix of regenerating vegetation and remnants of primary forest.
Approximately 1 cm was removed from the top of the stumps to avoid contamination, and the tissues underneath were sampled.
Fifty-five to 70% of the stumps produced sprouts.
Values in parentheses are numbers and percentages (last column) of stumps containing at least one living sprout.
Logging gaps were found by walking the skid trails and locating old tree stumps.
On one estate 'raw stumps were stuck into the ground and described as one year rubber'.
The trap presents an alternative to time-consuming excavation of stumps for the host and its parasitoid.
In the 1-, 5- and 8-y-old sites, >50% of the sprouting stumps had three or more living sprouts.
The netting diameter allows easy access of rainwater as well as light and wind and sufficient heat transfer such that it maintains conditions similar to those around uncovered stumps.
As we all know, when stumped by some difficult (conscious and linguistically formulated) problem, it often helps to sleep on it, or to turn our conscious thinking to other matters.
The main economic impact is caused when weevils emerge from stumps on clearfell areas and feed on the bark of the main stems of young conifers replanted on the area.
The trees have "spectral arms," their branches are "disfigured with wounds" and rotting stumps are compared with "black teeth [rising] from green gums" (212; ch. 19).
In places the contact between tuff and ignimbrite coincides with the in situ and in growth position stumps of petrified trees.
In the 0.25-ha plot, 831 living trees and 512 dead trees and stumps with a dbh > 1 cm were sampled yielding a total branch area (tba) of 2265 m2.
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