stump

1 :  to reduce to a stump :  trim

2a :  dare, challengeb :  to frustrate the progress or efforts of :  baffle

3 :  to clear (land) of stumps

4 :  to travel over (a region) making political speeches or supporting a cause

5a :  to walk over heavily or clumsilyb :  stub 3

1 :  to walk heavily or clumsily

2 :  to go about making political speeches or supporting a cause

:  a short thick roll of leather, felt, or paper usually pointed at both ends and used for shading or blending a drawing in crayon, pencil, charcoal, pastel, or chalk

:  to tone or treat (a drawing) with a stump

1 :  the part of a tree that remains in the ground after the tree is cut down

2 :  the part of something (as a tooth or a pencil) that remains after the rest has been removed, lost, or worn away :  stub

1 :  perplex, baffle My question stumped the experts.

2 :  to walk or walk over heavily, stiffly, or clumsily as if with a wooden leg

1:  the basal portion of a bodily part (as a limb) remaining after the rest is removed

2:  a rudimentary or vestigial bodily part