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Stump vs Clomp - What's the difference?

stump | clomp |

In lang=en terms the difference between stump and clomp

is that stump is to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge while clomp is to move, making loud noises with one's feet.

As nouns the difference between stump and clomp

is that stump is the remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb while clomp is the sound of feet hitting the ground loudly.

As verbs the difference between stump and clomp

is that stump is to stop, confuse, or puzzle while clomp is (label) to walk with wooden shoes.

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

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    clomp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of feet hitting the ground loudly

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) to walk with wooden shoes.
  • to move, making loud noises with one's feet
  • * 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
    • ...so having smoothed my hair as well as I could, and repeatedly twitched my obdurate collar, I proceeded to clomp down the two flights of stairs, philosophizing as I went;