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Stool vs Stump - What's the difference?

stool | stump |

As nouns the difference between stool and stump

is that stool is a seat for one person without a back or armrest while stump is the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.

As verbs the difference between stool and stump

is that stool is to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers while stump is to stop, confuse, or puzzle.

stool

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
  • A footstool.
  • Feces; excrement.
  • (label) A decoy.
  • A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
  • Throne.
  • (label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
  • (label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
    • (Totten)
  • Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    {{der3, footstool , stool pigeon , stoolie , window stool}}

    See also

    * chair * seat

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) stolo. See stolon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • *1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
  • *:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.

    • Anagrams

    * loots * tools ----

    stump

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia stump)
  • The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
  • (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
  • (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump !'
  • (cricket) 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.
  • (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
  • A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
  • (slang, humorous) 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.
  • A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

    • Derived terms

    * stumps * pull up stumps * on the stump * take the stump

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to stop, confuse, or puzzle
  • to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
    • ''This last question has me stumped .
  • to campaign
    • He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
  • (transitive, US, colloquial) to travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes
  • (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
  • (cricket) to bowl down the stumps of (a wicket)
  • * Tennyson
    • A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.
  • to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge

    • Related terms

    * stumped

    See also

    * stump up

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