Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stump \Stump\, n. [OE. stumpe, stompe; akin to D. stomp, G.
   stumpf, Icel. stumpr, Dan. & Sw. stump, and perhaps also to
   E. stamp.]
   1. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after
      the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

   2. 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.

   3. pl. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. [Slang]

   4. (Cricket) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the
      ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

   5. 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.

   6. 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.

   {Leg stump} (Cricket), the stump nearest to the batsman.

   {Off stump} (Cricket), the stump farthest from the batsman.
      

   {Stump tracery} (Arch.), a term used to describe late German
      Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass
      through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off
      short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end
      of each similar stump.

   {To go on the stump}, or {To take the stump}, to engage in
      making public addresses for electioneering purposes; -- a
      phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a
      speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also
      the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech,
      stump oratory, etc. [Colloq. U.S.]