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black stump

In Australia, an imaginary boundary between civilization and the outback, as in the phrase ‘this side of the black stump’.



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Galloway's mother and sister both have false teeth and, in photographs, Janice reveals mostly black stumps to the world.
Nor was dental caries any respecter of rank: Elizabeth I had teeth that were decayed down to black stumps by middle age, as a result of her addiction to sweet raisins.
To serve them, a myriad of new roads was being scored into the earth: smooth and black and closed to Palestinians, whose olive groves were left as rows of black stumps.
 
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