Stump (cricket)
Stump is a term used in the sport of cricket where it has three different meanings, part of the wicket, a manner of dismissing a batsman and the end of the day's play ("stumps").
Read more about Stump (cricket): Part of The Wicket, Manner of Dismissing A Batsman, End of The Day's Play
Famous quotes containing the word stump:
“The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,—these are the only traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the “South Sea”; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)