the part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.-the part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.-the legs; as, to stir one's stumps.-one of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.-a short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.-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; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.-to cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.-to strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.-to challenge; also, to nonplus.-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.-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.-to bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.-to walk clumsily, as if on stumps.