stump

Significado (Inglês)

1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
2. The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
3. A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
4. One 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. 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. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
7. (slang) A leg.
8. 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.
9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

stub

tree stump

stump of tree

mix in

wooden leg

reviewing stand

walk heavily

residual limb

shoulder in

short column

residual part

amputate

Freqüência

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/stʌmp/

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.