Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb. · The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting. · A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration. · One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
To stop, confuse, or puzzle. · To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem. · To campaign. · To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.
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