stump

A hiker clambers across a scorched landscape of ash, his footsteps crunching on charred earth as he peers over a ridge at a burn scar pocked with blackened stumps.

Creating the mechanical equivalent of the human hand is a challenge that has been stumping corporate and academic researchers for years.

But now both governments think the other should stump up the cash.

In 2019 I made a complete technical shift to try to hit his leg stump.

Diana Baig's dismissal of Tammy Beaumont jagged back off the seam, the opener playing an extravagent leave only to see the ball clatter into her off stump.