Слово "stump". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

'"There used to be a very old one over yonder, but it was struck by lightning ten years ago, and we cut down the stump."

The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard and set up on a stump at the foot of the flagstaff, beside the gun.

Apart from the bloody stump, the hand was so completely whitened as to resemble a plaster cast.

Then he was quiet, biting his arm, the stump of his leg twitching.

Stu had me quit wearing a left arm in public, sleeves of my costumes were sewed up so that stump could not be missed, and word was passed that I had lost it "fighting for freedom."

Then her head was pillowed on my stump and I put right arm around her.

Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves.

Presently a slow smile moved his lips and he threw the stump of his cigar into the water.

“You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety which are rolled in Rotterdam.”

“No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box.”

So you can stir your stumps, my lad, and get going. I’ve got all the visas ready for you, and a nice new passport.

So when Winnie-the-Pooh came stumping along, Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say

He turned his back and stumped to his desk.

And for no reason at all that he could make out, his mind leaped to his father, stumping about on his wooden leg, rapping on his leg for attention with a walking stick.

Of course, there was always a certain percentage of trivia: people who asked personal questions about their neighbors or obscene questions about prominent personalities; college youths trying to outguess their professors or thinking it clever to stump Multivac by asking it Russell’s class-of-all-classes paradox and so on.

If he had returned by saying that murderers had no hope of joining their victims in Heaven, I might have been stumped.

But one thing's certain. Something about you stumped him that night.

Finally he flung away and left, shouting out that he was coming back and that she had 'jolly well got to stump up.'