3. To challenge; also, to nonplus. [Colloq.]
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, n. [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. T. Hughes.
(b) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket.
A herd of boys with clamor bowled,
And stumped the wicket.
Tennyson. To stump it.
(a) To go afoot; hence, to run away; to escape. [Slang] Ld. Lytton. (b) To make electioneering
speeches. [Colloq. U.S.]
Stump
(Stump), v. i. To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.
To stump up,
to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.