Stump

In its most general sense, stump is an English word. It may refer to:

  • Tree stump, the rooted remains of a felled tree
  • Stump, the remains of a limb after amputation
  • Stump (cricket), one of three small wooden posts which the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball
  • Stump (drawing), an artists' drawing tool made of rolled paper
  • Stump, a coastal landform which forms when a stack is eroded, leaving a small rock island, usually small enough to be submerged at high tide

Stump is a surname, from the German "Stumpf". People named or nicknamed Stump include:

  • James "Stump" Cross, of Stump and Stumpy, American performers during the 1930s-50s
  • Stump Edington, American baseball player of the early 20th century
  • Paul "Stump" Evans, an American jazz saxophonist from the early 20th century
  • Stump Merrill, American baseball manager
  • Stump Mitchell, American football player and coach
  • Stump Monroe, drummer of the Scottish band The Almighty
  • Patrick Stump, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the American band Fall Out Boy
  • Stump Wiedman, an American baseball player during the 19th century

As a proper name, Stump may refer to:

  • Stump (band), a band from Cork, Ireland
  • the nickname of Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee, the 2009 "Best In Show" winner at the Westminster Dog Show
  • Stump (game), an American drinking game
  • USS Stump (DD-978), a Spruance-class destroyer
See also
  • StumpWM, an X window manager written in Common Lisp
  • Decision stump, a weak learner model in Machine Learning
  • Stump speech (politics), a political speech
  • Stump speech (minstrelsy), a part of the blackface minstrel show
  • Muffin stump, the tough lower portion of a muffin (see The Muffin Tops)

Famous quotes containing the word stump:

    The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)