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noun
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
- (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
- (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
- a sharp protuberance
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
- (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
- catch on a snag
- get by acting quickly and smartly
- hew jaggedly
noun
- The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
- (nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
- Synonym of logarithm.
- A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
- (figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.
- A logbook, or journal of a vessel's (or aircraft's) progress.
- (vulgar) A piece of feces, especially a relatively long, solid one, resembling a tree log.
- (mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
- Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (surfing slang) A heavy longboard.
- A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
- Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
- (sciences) A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10; an order of magnitude.
- (computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequential record of events written to a file, display, or other data stream.
- (figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.
- (historical units of measure) A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ¹⁄₃ liter).
- a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
- a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
- measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water
- the exponent required to produce a given number
- a written record of messages sent or received
verb
- (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
- (transitive) To cut trees into logs.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.
- (transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
- (transitive) To cut down (trees).
- (video games) To log out; to disconnect from an online video game.
- (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by a chip log.
- cut lumber, as in woods and forests
- enter into a log, as on ships and planes
noun
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- a branch or a part of a tree that is dead
- (bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- (by extension) Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- (nautical) Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- (poker) Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- (rummy) Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
- someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded
noun
- (British, horticulture) A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches.
- (also attributively and figurative) Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure.
- (chemistry) A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc.
- (also attributively) A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.
- a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
verb
noun
- The trunk of a tree.
- The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
- The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
- supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- Solid remains of a fire.
- (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
- Alternative form of aush.
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- (countable, uncountable) Any tree of certain species of other genera.
- Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
- (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
- The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
- (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
- A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.
- (cellular automata) The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern.
- the residue that remains when something is burned
- strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
- any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
adv
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight.
- A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
- forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts
- strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
- heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods
- tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.
- (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
- (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
- straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
- a coniferous tree
verb
noun
- A forest of such trees.
- The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
- Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.
- Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
- A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
- clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
verb
- (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
- (transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
- alter so as to make unrecognizable
- injure badly by beating
- press with a mangle
- damage or injure severely
noun
noun
noun
- The wood of this tree.
- (chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
- Alternative form of lyam (“a leash”).
- A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.
- Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
- (poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance that traps or captures; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
- A particular one of those colours that has been standardized under this name, at least in some organizations' standards.
- (theater) A limelight; any spotlight.
- Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
- (Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago) A casual gathering to socialize.
- (fandom slang) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
- (uncountable) Any of several brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colours associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
- any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber
- a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
- a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
- the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
- any of various related trees bearing limes
- a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
adj
verb
- (Caribbean, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, informal) To hang out or socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.
- (transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
- (transitive) To apply limewash.
- (rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
- (transitive) To smear with birdlime.
- spread birdlime on branches to catch birds
- cover with lime so as to induce growth
noun
- The wood of this tree.
- Eye dialect spelling of tune.
- A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
- (Scotland, Northumbria) A town.
- (informal) A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
- (informal) An animated cartoon character.
- (informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
- a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
noun
- A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- (rare) A female chimpanzee.
- The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
- (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
- The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
- a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
verb
noun
- Wood of this tree.
- A tree said in the Bible to have furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; now believed to have been red acacia, of species Vachellia seyal (formerly Acacia seyal).
- source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia
noun
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) 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.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- 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.
- (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.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
verb
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- walk heavily
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
noun
- A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree
- shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
- shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
- deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
noun
- Alternative form of treecreeper.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers
noun
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- (informal, uncommon) Acronym of sensitive new age guy.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- (figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
- (by extension) Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sausage.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
- (Australian rules football, slang) A goal.
- a sharp protuberance
- an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- (slang, Native American) To have noncommittal sexual relations.
- (slang, transitive) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- (UK, dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
- catch on a snag
- get by acting quickly and smartly
- hew jaggedly
noun
- The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches.
- (nautical) A floating device, usually of wood, used in navigation to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.
- Synonym of logarithm.
- A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree.
- (figuratively) A blockhead; a very stupid person.
- A logbook, or journal of a vessel's (or aircraft's) progress.
- (vulgar) A piece of feces, especially a relatively long, solid one, resembling a tree log.
- (mining) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
- Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc.
- (vulgar) A penis.
- (surfing slang) A heavy longboard.
- A chronological record of actions, performances, computer/network usage, etc.
- Anything shaped like a log; a cylinder.
- (sciences) A difference of one in the logarithm, usually in base 10; an order of magnitude.
- (computer science) Specifically, an append-only sequential record of events written to a file, display, or other data stream.
- (figuratively) A rolled cake with filling.
- (historical units of measure) A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about ¹⁄₃ liter).
- a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
- a written record of events on a voyage (of a ship or plane)
- measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water
- the exponent required to produce a given number
- a written record of messages sent or received
verb
- (intransitive) To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood.
- (transitive) To cut trees into logs.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) as shown in a logbook.
- (transitive) To make, to add an entry (or more) in a log or logbook.
- (transitive) To cut down (trees).
- (video games) To log out; to disconnect from an online video game.
- (transitive) To travel at a specified speed, as ascertained by a chip log.
- cut lumber, as in woods and forests
- enter into a log, as on ships and planes
noun
- Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- a branch or a part of a tree that is dead
- (bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
- (by extension) Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
- (nautical) Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
- (poker) Cards that have been discarded.
- People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
- Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
- (rummy) Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
- someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded
noun
- (British, horticulture) A dead tree whose height and size have been reduced by breaking off or cutting its branches.
- (also attributively and figurative) Anything massive, uniform, and unmovable, especially a towering and impersonal cultural, political, or social organization or structure.
- (chemistry) A substrate having many tiny channels that is cast as a single piece, which is used as a stationary phase for chromatography, as a catalytic surface, etc.
- (also attributively) A large, single block of stone which is a natural feature; or a block of stone or other similar material used in architecture and sculpture, especially one carved into a monument in ancient times.
- a single great stone (often in the form of a column or obelisk)
verb
noun
- The trunk of a tree.
- The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- (historical, slang) A stipendiary magistrate.
- The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
- supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- Solid remains of a fire.
- (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
- Alternative form of aush.
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- (countable, uncountable) Any tree of certain species of other genera.
- Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
- (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
- The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
- (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
- A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.
- (cellular automata) The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern.
- the residue that remains when something is burned
- strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
- any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
adv
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- A large tree, Ochroma pyramidale, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight.
- A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
- forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts
- strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
- heavy wood of various brazilwood trees; used for violin bows and as dyewoods
- tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry
noun
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- (countable) Any tree (usually coniferous) which resembles a member of this genus in some respect.
- (uncountable, colloquial) A counter or bartop.
- (countable, uncountable) Any coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
- (archaic except Caribbean, Guyana, South Africa, Australia) A pineapple.
- (sports, uncountable, colloquial) The bench, where players sit when not playing.
- straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus
- a coniferous tree
verb
noun
- A forest of such trees.
- The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
- Preceded by a descriptive word: any of various shrubs or trees of genera other than Rhizophora which resemble plants of this genus in appearance and habitat.
- Any of various trees of the genus Rhizophora, especially the red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle).
- A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
- clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers
verb
- (transitive, computing) To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
- (transitive) To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
- alter so as to make unrecognizable
- injure badly by beating
- press with a mangle
- damage or injure severely
noun
noun
noun
- The wood of this tree.
- (chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).
- Alternative form of lyam (“a leash”).
- A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.
- Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
- (poetic) Any gluey or adhesive substance that traps or captures; sometimes a synonym for birdlime.
- A particular one of those colours that has been standardized under this name, at least in some organizations' standards.
- (theater) A limelight; any spotlight.
- Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
- (Caribbean, Trinidad & Tobago) A casual gathering to socialize.
- (fandom slang) A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
- (uncountable) Any of several brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colours associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
- any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber
- a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds
- a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
- the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees
- any of various related trees bearing limes
- a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide
adj
verb
- (Caribbean, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, informal) To hang out or socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.
- (transitive) To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
- (transitive) To apply limewash.
- (rare) To ensnare, catch, entrap.
- (transitive) To smear with birdlime.
- spread birdlime on branches to catch birds
- cover with lime so as to induce growth
noun
- The wood of this tree.
- Eye dialect spelling of tune.
- A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata or Toona australis) of the mahogany family with fragrant dark red wood and flowers that yield a dye.
- (Scotland, Northumbria) A town.
- (informal) A cartoon, especially an animated television show.
- (informal) An animated cartoon character.
- (informal, video games) A player's avatar or visible character in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
- a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
noun
- A deciduous tree, Paulownia tomentosa
- (rare) A female chimpanzee.
- The female monarch (ruler) of an empire.
- (tarot) The third trump or major arcana card of most tarot decks.
- The wife or widow of an emperor or equated ruler.
- (chess) A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the rook and the knight.
- a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
verb
noun
- Wood of this tree.
- A tree said in the Bible to have furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; now believed to have been red acacia, of species Vachellia seyal (formerly Acacia seyal).
- source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia
noun
- the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled
- (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
- the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed
- a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
- (cricket) 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.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- 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.
- (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.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
verb
- cause to be perplexed or confounded
- travel through a district and make political speeches
- remove tree stumps from
- walk heavily
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
noun
- A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree
- shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
- shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke
- deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
noun
- Alternative form of treecreeper.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- any of numerous South American and Central American birds with a curved bill and stiffened tail feathers that climb and feed like woodpeckers