A tree-trunk deprived of its branches; the lower part of a tree-trunk left standing, a stump. Obsolete or archaic.

Originally: an edible root, as a carrot or parsnip. Later gen.: the root of a tree or plant; the fibrous roots of a tap root, etc. Also: tree…

A stump of a tree or, more rarely, of a shrub or smaller plant; the portion left fixed in the ground when a tree has been felled; also, †a trunk…

A tree stump.

The portion of the trunk of a felled tree that remains fixed in the ground; also, a standing tree-trunk from which the upper part and the branches…

A stump of a tree; also, a rough projection (on a pole, trunk, or stump of a tree, rock, etc.).

The stump of a tree which has been felled; also the head of the stump, from which new shoots are produced.

(See quot. 1772.)

The stump of a tree or shrub.

the stock or stump of a tree, bush, etc., which has been felled, cut, or coppiced; the stool of a coppiced tree; cf. sense 5, snar, n. 2.

A stump.

English regional (south-eastern). The root or stump of something, as a tree or a tooth.

the stump of a fallen tree as preserved in a peatbog.