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STUMPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stumping mean? 

STUMPING (noun)
  The noun STUMPING has 1 sense:

1. campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)play

  Familiarity information: STUMPING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STUMPING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("stumping" is a kind of...):

campaigning; candidacy; candidature; electioneering; political campaign (the campaign of a candidate to be elected)


 Context examples 


While the other colonies in the region have bounced back, the one on Pig Island continues to decline, stumping scientists.

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“With an artificial foot—and they make excellent ones—you will be stumping ships’ galleys to the end of time,” I assured him jovially.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All the time he was jerking out these phrases he was stumping up and down the tavern on his crutch, slapping tables with his hand, and giving such a show of excitement as would have convinced an Old Bailey judge or a Bow Street runner.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

All at once, I saw two figures: one a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other a girl of maybe eight or ten who was running as hard as she was able down a cross street.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A red-faced man, slamming the cabin door behind him and stumping out on the deck, interrupted my reflections, though I made a mental note of the topic for use in a projected essay which I had thought of calling The Necessity for Freedom: A Plea for the Artist.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is a picture, and I can see it now,—the jagged edges of the hole in the side of the cabin, through which the grey fog swirled and eddied; the empty upholstered seats, littered with all the evidences of sudden flight, such as packages, hand satchels, umbrellas, and wraps; the stout gentleman who had been reading my essay, encased in cork and canvas, the magazine still in his hand, and asking me with monotonous insistence if I thought there was any danger; the red-faced man, stumping gallantly around on his artificial legs and buckling life-preservers on all comers; and finally, the screaming bedlam of women.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)



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