2. Noun. (uncountable cricket) close of play (when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires) ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of stump) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stumps
1. stump [v] - See also: stump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stumps
Literary usage of Stumps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1881)
"Some portion of encroachment of the sea upon the land has evidently taken place
since the country was settled, for in some places the stumps of trees which ..."
2. Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences by Silas Weir Mitchell (1872)
"NEURAL MALADIES OF stumps. THE nervous affections of stumps are chorea, neuralgia,
neuritis, and sclerosis. They have received but little notice at the ..."
3. Annual Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1897)
"The stumps had been removed from most of these spots by a steam shovel and had
probably been reburied in the railroad embankment made close by. ..."
4. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of by Society of Arts (Great Britain, Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1825)
"As in the clearing of woodland the extirpation of stumps and roots is the most
laborious part of the process, it has, of course, been the subject of much ..."
5. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1895)
"them had atrophied, and there was a complete mixture of ordinary thick ringworm
stumps, and atrophied stumps. The former easily broke off, leaving the root ..."
6. Publications by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (1915)
"Red Cross Dynamite for clearing white oak stumps ranging from two to three feet in
... The stumps ranged from one-and-a-half to three feet in diameter, ..."
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