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Stump vs Tump - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between stump and tump

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 tump is (british|rare) a mound or hillock or tump can be (uncommon) a tumpline.

As verbs the difference between stump and tump

is that stump is to stop, confuse, or puzzle while tump is to form a mass of earth or a hillock about or tump can be (southern us) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump").

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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    tump

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) twmp, twm.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, rare) A mound or hillock.
  • * 1974 , Guy Davenport, Tatlin! :
    • The island was two rocks grey as twilight between which a tump of iron loam ribbed with flint bore a stand of fir and spruce.
    (Ainsworth)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form a mass of earth or a hillock about.
    • to tump teasel

    Etymology 2

    Possibly from .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
    • Don't tump that bucket over!
  • (Southern US) To fall over.
  • (US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
    • (Bartlett)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl); see tumpline for more.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncommon) A tumpline.