to stump
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7.2
- verb
- /stʌmp/
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- Right now, a delicacy called "chicken of the woods" to our mushroom hunters is being harvested (I can see the big oak stump out my office window where a clump of it comes up every year).
Examples
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Even if you kept your kids in plimsolls (9 a pair when I was doing the annual ritual of levering out a kidney and splatting it on the counter of the school uniform shop last week), you'd still have to stump up for the rest of the food, the clothes, and the housing that children are inconvenient enough to need.
Blog text (23) -
Though we climbed every tree big enough to hold us, our favorite was the giant, thick-stumped box elder that towered above the irrigation ditch in the front of our yard.
Fiction book (2001) -
Now is not the time to stump.
Blog text (8) -
Why stump its progress by selfishly allowing learning photographers to make the same mistakes as we did?
Blog text (29) -
Helped Dad out with his steeple fund five years ago, persuaded her father to stump up for a Romanian orphans' charity I'm involved with.
Fiction book (1996) -
The workers will stump the old trees to prepare the land for new crops.
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To make the yard safe for play, they needed to stump the large tree that had fallen.
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After clearing the forest, they will stump the remaining tree stumps to finish the site preparation.
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
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6.5
A talk a politician gives many times during a campaign about their main plans
- Specialized
A small sharp hand shovel with a pointed blade for digging out roots and weeds
How Cleared
Surface Forms
Etymology
To stump land means to remove tree stumps, and this verb comes directly from the noun for the wood left after cutting. So to stump a field is to clear away those short trunks and roots.