stumping
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)Type of campaigning, candidacy
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“stumping” is listed under Stump.
1. To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
Around the stumped top soft moss did grow.— Dr. Henry More
2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub. colloquial
3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. colloquial
4. To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, noun Colloq. U.S.
5. Cricket (a) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; — sometimes with out. Thomas Hughes (b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
A herd of boys with clamor bowled, And stumped the wicket.— Alfred Tennyson
To stump it. (a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. slang Edward George, Baron Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (b) To make electioneering speeches. Colloq. U.S.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54