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stumping |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Stump \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.] 3. To challenge; also to nonplus. [Colloq.] 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.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: stumping n : campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)
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