Definition of "tree stump" []

• The base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The men had been taking Vorn along with them to the practice field occasionally since he was five, but most of the time he practiced with his miniature spear, jabbing it into the soft earth or a rotten tree stump to get the feel of handling the weapon."
• "Tearing through a barren field, the Cessna plowed through a ditch, then skidded through some saplings, and finally hit a large tree stump and slid to a halt on Greensburg Road, about nine hundred feet from the runway."
• "When he had climbed down and begun walking again, every tree stump seemed to take on the shape of a lurker in the dark, and he once pulled his pistol on a scraggly myrtle bush that looked like a big-hatted fatman."