" stump "

[Noun]  | "stump" | \ ˈstəmp \

1: the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed

2: a rudimentary or vestigial bodily part

3: the part of a plant and especially a tree remaining attached to the root after the trunk is cut

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English stumpe; akin to Old High German stumpf stump and perhaps to Middle English stampen to stamp;

[Noun]  | "stump" 

1: a short thick roll of leather, felt, or paper usually pointed at both ends and used for shading or blending a drawing in crayon, pencil, charcoal, pastel, or chalk

Origin: 1778 ;

 French or Dutch dialect; French estompe, from Dutch dialect stomp, literally, stub, from Middle Dutch; akin to Old High German stumpf stump;

[Noun]  | "stomp" 

1: stamp

2: a jazz dance marked by heavy stamping

Origin: circa 1899 ;

[Noun]  | "stump-tailed macaque" | \ ˈstəmp-ˈtāl(d)- \

1: a dark reddish-brown naked-faced short-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides synonym M. speciosa) of eastern Asia —called also stump-tailed monkey

Origin: 1938 ;

[Noun]  | "stump work" 

1: embroidery with intricate padded designs or scenes in high relief popular especially in the 17th century

Origin: 1904 ;

[Noun]  | "stump speech" 

1: a speech that is made many times by a politician who is traveling to different places during a campaign for election

[Verb]  | "stump" 

1: to reduce to a stump : trim

2: dare, challenge

3: to frustrate the progress or efforts of : baffle

Origin: 13th century ;

[Verb]  | "stump" 

1: to tone or treat (a drawing) with a stump

Origin: 1807 ;

[Phrasal verb]  | "stump up" 

1: to pay (an amount of money) especially when one does not want to

[Idiom]  | "on the stump" 

1: traveling around and giving speeches during a campaign for election to a political office

[Verb]  | "stump" 

[Noun]  | "stump"