stump
/stʌmp/ nom C1En français : souche, moignon, estompe
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- 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.
- An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A leg. · to stir one's stumps
- 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.
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Dans la bibliothèque
Killer Evans struck a match, lit a stump of candle, and vanished from our view.
On one corner of this was stuck the stump of a red wax candle.
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.
In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box.”
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