STUMPS

"STUMPS" is a plural of: stump.

Date "STUMPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonym: STUMPS

Activity

Verb: be active; Adjective: busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's way; make progress; toll; (labor); plod, persist; (persevere) a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.

Interjection: be alive, look alive, look sharp! move on, push on! keep moving! go ahead! stir your stumps! age quod agis! jaldi! karo! step lively!

Journey

Peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.

Velocity

Hurry; (hasten); accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.

Crosswords: STUMPS

Jill? Yes Sam I think I ought to tell you. I'm afraid she's upped stumps and retired to the pavillion (Brazil; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Charles McKeown)

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Books

• Ditches Stumps and Boulders (reference)

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Indian River Lagoon is in the background of this image. The lagoon is one of the largest lagoons on the east coast of Florida and is prime habitat for Snook and Tarpon. The lagoon waters are estuarine. This image shows Brazilian Pepper stumps to the right of the volunteer's feet. Once the pepper bushes have been cut an herbicide will be applied to kill the bush. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

This image shows the big stumps of the Brazilian Peppers that have been cut to make way for mangroves. Brazilian Pepper bushes can reach twenty feet in height. During the restoration, bushes as big as 9" in diameter were cleared to provide habitat for mangroves to recolonize. Without restoration efforts to clear Brazilian Pepper, the bush could take over mangrove habitat in two years time. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Clearing land by burning stumps, Skyline Farms, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blackened stumps of trees and ugly snags cover the slopes leading to Mount Hood, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Scarecrow on a newly cleared field with stumps near Roxboro, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Redwood trees and stumps on redwood highway. An active mill town of the Pacific Lumber Company is located at Scotia. California, Humboldt County. Credit: Library of Congress.

Soil erosion. Hamilton County, Illinois. This land has been cleared of timber and put into corn. Note stumps of trees, and beginning of erosion gullies. Credit: Library of Congress.

The cemetery of the forest. A stump prairie. This land has been cleared. After the stumps are pulled the land will be used for farming. Near Nelma, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old white pine logs and stumps left in the woods by logging operations. Near Gibbs City, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Field with tree stumps. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It would fly frantically with the stumps of its burned wings towards the radiant door

I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair

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Health

Raccoons typically defecate at the base of or in raised forks of trees, or on raised horizontal surfaces such as fallen logs, stumps, or large rocks. (references)

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Expressions using "STUMPS": Amputation Stumps ♦ draw the stumps ♦ stir one's stumps. Additional references.

Ending with "STUMPS": tree-stumps.

Danish

senestumper (tendon stumps), seneender (tendon stumps). (various references)

Dutch

wollen stompverband (woollen sheath for amputation stumps), wollen amputatieverband (woollen sheath for amputation stumps). (various references)

French

éberlué (starry eyed, stunned). (various references)

German

Stummeln, Stümpfe (stubs). (various references)

Hungarian

lábak (benders, moggans, pelvic limb, props), célkapu lécei. (various references)

Italian

sbalordito (aghast, amazed, astounds, perplexed, thunderstruck). (various references)

Pig Latin

umpsstay.(various references)

Portuguese

coto tendinoso (tendon stumps), coto de um tendão (tendon stumps). (various references)

Spanish

desconcertado (abashed, astounds, bewildered, confused, disconcerted, embarrassed, hot under the collar, perplexed, taken aback). (various references)

Turkish

yürümek (ankle, have a walk, hike, pace, step, step up, stir one's stumps, toddle, tread, walk), oyunu bitirmek (draw the stumps), kımıldamak (budge, move, play, stir, stir one's stumps). (various references)

Misspellings

"STUMPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stemps, strump, stummes, Stumpf, stymp, tumps. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: musts, smuts, stump, stums, sumps, tumps.

-2 letters: muss, must, muts, psst, puss, puts, smut, stum, sump, sums, sups, tump, tups, umps.

-3 letters: mus, mut, pus, put, sum, sup, tup, ump, ups, uts.

-4 letters: mu, um, up, us, ut.

+1 letter: septums.

+2 letters: spumiest, stumpers, sumpters, utopisms.

+3 letters: assumpsit, dumpsters, impetuses, jumpsuits, plastrums, potassium, spectrums, strumpets, stumpages, stumpiest, sumptuous, supremest.

+4 letters: asphaltums, assumpsits, assumption, assumptive, euphemists, impostumes, impostures, impuissant, mousetraps, posthumous, potassiums, supersmart.

+5 letters: assumptions, deutoplasms, imposthumes, manuscripts, miscomputes, outpromises, punishments, puritanisms, resumptions, scrumptious, subcompacts, subprimates, subsumption, sumptuously, supersmooth, supersystem, suppertimes, supplements, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, sympetalous, tempestuous, utopianisms.