stump

/stʌmp/ noun [C]

Translation

SHORT PART › the short part of something that is left after most of it has been removed

kalıntı, kütük, kalan parça

a tree stump 1827

SPORT › one of the three vertical wooden sticks that you throw a ball at in the game of cricket

krikette kale çubuğu

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(Definition of stump noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to refuse to accept something or someone because you feel that they are not worth having

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