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stump

Low outcrop of rock formed by the erosion of a coastal stack. Unlike a stack, which is exposed at all times, a stump is exposed only at low tide. Eventually it is worn away completely.

stump

String instrument of the cittern type invented around 1600 by Daniel Farrant. The manuscript of the only surviving piece written for it, ‘To the Stump by F P’, is in Christ Church, Oxford. From it have been inferred various details such as length of strings, number of courses, and compass.



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It happened that a Fox caught its tail in a trap, and in struggling to release himself lost all of it but the stump.
Fables by Aesop View in context
He will either push the stump out of the ground with his tusks, if he has any, or drag it out with ropes.
From Mine Own People by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
He turned his head and blinked at the men who shouted, at the same time wagging his stump of a tail good-naturedly.
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