Meaning

• 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.

• (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.

• A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.

• A leg.

  "to stir one's stumps"

• 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 pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Meaning

• To stop, confuse, or puzzle.

• To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.

  "This last question has me stumped."

• To campaign.

  "He’s been stumping for that reform for months."

• To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.

• (of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.

• To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).

• To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.

• To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.

• To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.