Around the stumped top soft moss did grow. --Dr. H.
More.
2. To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something
fixed; to stub. [Colloq.]
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.]