What is to walk clumsily, as if on stumps. To stump up, to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell called?
stump — To walk clumsily, as if on stumps. To stump up, to pay cash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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