Crossword-Solution: STUMP 5 letters, 110 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Stump	n.	The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
Stump	n.	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.
Stump	n.	The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
Stump	n.	One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Stump	n.	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.
Stump	n.	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.
Stump	v. t.	To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Stump	v. t.	To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
Stump	v. t.	To challenge; also, to nonplus.
Stump	v. t.	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.
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.
Stump	n.	To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
Stump	v. i.	To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

We have 110 clues for the answer “STUMP”

Clue	Answers
A lumberjack might leave one behind	1 answer
Ask an unanswerable question	1 answer
Baffle with a tough question	1 answer
Campaign for election	1 answer
Campaign in	1 answer
Campaign speech platform	1 answer
Campaign speech setting	1 answer
Campaign trail	1 answer
Campaigner's place	1 answer
Campaigner's platform	1 answer
Cricket wicket component seen at the base	1 answer
Clear-cutting remnant	1 answer
Completely confound	1 answer
Completely puzzle	1 answer
Component of wicket	1 answer
Confuse completely	1 answer
Crash Test Dummies: "Sittin' on a Tree ___"	1 answer
Deforestation remnant	1 answer
Electioneer: Colloq.	1 answer
Felled tree remnant	1 answer
Felled tree's remnant	1 answer
Former tree	1 answer
Go on the campaign trail	1 answer
Illustration on the final page of "The Giving Tree"	1 answer
Leave at a loss	1 answer
Leave baffled	1 answer
Leave flummoxed	1 answer
Leave perplexed	1 answer
Leave without an answer	1 answer
Logger's leftover	1 answer
Logging leaving	1 answer
Logging remnant	1 answer
Lumberjack's remnant	1 answer
Make campaign speeches.	1 answer
Make political promises	1 answer
Make political speeches	1 answer
Part of a cricket pitch	1 answer
Place for a candidate to speak	1 answer
Plower's obstacle	1 answer
Pol's speech spot	1 answer
Puzzle, as a solver	1 answer
Remains of tree	1 answer
Remnant at a tree farm	1 answer
Remnant of a chopped tree	1 answer
Puzzling question that leaves you at a loss	1 answer
Residue after felling	1 answer
Speechifying spot	1 answer
Take to the hustings.	1 answer
The Giving Tree, ultimately	1 answer
Totally baffle	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

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greedy person

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Sentences with STUMP (5)

Shucks! Now you tell me how Bob Tanner done it, Huck.” “Why, he took and dipped his hand in a rotten stump where the rain-water was.” “In the daytime?” “Certainly.” “With his face to the stump?” “Yes.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Dah’s de stump, dah—dat’s one er de women; heah’s you—dat’s de yuther one; I’s Sollermun; en dish yer dollar bill’s de chile.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

For many minutes he lay trembling and broken; but finally he drew himself to a sitting posture, and taking a match from his pocket, lighted the stump of the candle which remained to him.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

Miles upon miles to the east and southeast the desert unrolled itself, white, naked, inhospitable, palpitating and shimmering under the sun, unbroken by so much as a rock or cactus stump.

McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Harney tied the horse to a tree-stump, and they unpacked their basket under an aged walnut with a riven trunk out of which bumblebees darted.

Summer Edith Wharton 2006

Quotes with STUMP (3)

I’m going to tell you something once and then whether you die is strictly up to you," Westley said, lying pleasantly on the bed. "What I’m going to tell you is this: drop your sword, and if you do, then I will leave with this baggage here" — he glanced at Buttercup — "and you will be tied up but not fatally, and will be free to go about your business. And if you choose to fight, well, then, we will not both leave alive." You are only alive now because you said 'to the pain.' …

William Goldman

It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he neared, and it was as though I had an eternity to ponder the approach of this man who was my brother. His garments were filthy, his face blackened, the stump of his right arm raised, gesturing anywhere. The great beast that he rode was striped, black and red, with a wild red mane and tail. But it really was a horse, and its eyes rolled and there was foam at its mouth and its breat…

Roger Zelazny The Guns of Avalon

Our world is falling apart quietly. Human civilization has reduced the plant, a four-million-year-old life form, into three things: food, medicine, and wood. In our relentless and ever-intensifying obsession with obtaining a higher volume, potency, and variety of these three things, we have devastated plant ecology to an extent that millions of years of natural disaster could not. Roads have grow like a manic fungus and the endless miles of ditches that bracket these roads se…

Hope Jahren Lab Girl

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 117 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).