DCHP-1 Online
stump ((n.)) 
1 n. Obs. in the stumps, of towns, in a region recently cleared of trees.
- 1849 Some idea may be formed of the newness of the "location" of London "in the stumps," when I say that two or three bears from the woods sauntered through the streets at night when we were there, and one of them on passing looked curiously at a sentry.
2 n. on the stump, of timber, not yet logged.
- 1956 ". . . my uncle Geoffrey marrit a Hagget girl that owned five thousand acres o' prime white pine timber on the stump."
- 1849 Some idea may be formed of the newness of the "location" of London "in the stumps," when I say that two or three bears from the woods sauntered through the streets at night when we were there, and one of them on passing looked curiously at a sentry.