stumps
noun B2- close of play (when the stumps are pulled out of the ground by the umpires) · England still have a chance of winning tomorrow if they can get India out before stumps today.· Australia were 488-6 at stumps against India.
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Hammond from up the river came down and said she’d take me, seeing I was handy with children, and I went up the river to live with her in a little clearing among the stumps.
Anne had sat among the stumps and wept, not without an eye to the romance of it; but she was speedily consoled, for, after all, as she and Diana said, big girls of thirteen, going on fourteen, were too old for such childish amusements as playhouses, and there were more fascinating sports to be found about the pond.
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