stump

It was a stump soap box speech. :P

The next day, Monday, we were playing in the fields and this boy said to me, "See that bird standing on the stump there?

" Now that its case has been reduced to a final stump, it can continue to declaim but who will listen?

There's a terrorist hiding behind every tree stump?

And when I interview people for my team I steer clear of trying to stump them under intense pressure, and instead ask for a mini project.

A woman with a bloody stump knocks on your taxi window, but your knowlegable friend says that's fake blood, although the missing hand is real.

But my experience of Apple products to date suggests to me I'm going to love my Apple Watch, enough that I'll stump up the cash sight unseen.

That meant that VCs that used to be able to get away with underpaying were forced to stump up closer to market value and that makes them grumpy.

But you can watch the videos and subscribe right there and then to accelerate your journey to the point where you're ready to stump up some cash for the secret to success.

This especially would've rung true:Will your accounts department stump up for a fancy new handset just so you can listen to Eminem on your way to a business meeting?At the time?

The main suckitude came from the fact that the more we worked on our real products, the less we wanted to consult we still never had to travel away from our families, stump, beg, wheedle, or go without money.

Wherever it comes from, being able to answer questions that stump other developers provides a big gain in productivity, because you spend more time doing work and less time struggling with trivialities.

The two examples he gave were that when doing an amputation, he wouldn't leave a flap of skin to cover the stump; and that his sutures were "almost thick enough to be twine", leading to huge, ropey scars where other surgeons were routinely making their work invisible.