Stump
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To challenge; also, to nonplus.
(2): ( v. t.) To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.
(3): ( v. t.) To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.
(4): ( n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
(5): ( n.) The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
(6): ( n.) The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.
(7): ( n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
(8): ( n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.
(9): ( n.) A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
(10): ( n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
(11): ( v. i.) To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
(12): ( n.) 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.
(13): ( v. t.) To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. The stub of a tree the part of a tree remaining int he earth after the tree is cut down, or the part of any plant left in the earth by the sythe or sickle. 2. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed as the stump of a leg, of a finger or a tooth.
1. To strike any thing fixed and hard with the toe. Vulgar. 2. To challenge. Vulgar.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
1 Samuel 5:4 (c) The head of the image was gone, for God has no use for the thoughts of men, or of idols. The feet were gone, for an idolatrous walk is rejected by God. The hands and arms were gone because God will not have the work of idolaters. The only part left was the stump, which was a picture of the helplessness, the uselessness and the worthlessness of idols and those who worship them.
