Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet STUMPS

Definition av STUMPS

1. böjningsform av stump

Exempel på hur man kan använda STUMPS i en mening

• People have been using natural objects, such as tree stumps, rocks and moss, as furniture since the beginning of human civilization and continues today in some households/campsites.
• In the early 19th century, the new settlement that would become Matthews was unofficially named Stumptown for the copious amount of tree stumps left from making way for cotton farms.
• Harvey E Beury (1871-1965) and his wife Alice Hubler Beury (1871-1952) began creating the Beury's Lake in 1920 by creating a dam on Deep Creek (then also known as Buckhorn Creek) and removing the trees and stumps from the surrounding area.
• The first farms were treated to fertile soil where they could grow wheat, corn, buckwheat, rye, oats, and barley, but were plagued by tree stumps that were too strongly rooted to be removed by primitive farm machinery.
• Great Britain then scored 145 for 5 in their second innings and declared, setting the hosts a target of 185 to win: Great Britain then bowled out France for 26 to win the match by 158 runs, a significant margin, but with only five minutes remaining before stumps.
• The building, known as Transad House, was occupied in its early years by the publishers of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack and an image of cricket stumps appears above a doorway.
• In the sport of cricket, a bail is one of the two smaller sticks placed on top of the three stumps to form a wicket.
• They nest in the decayed cavities of dead trees, old stumps, or in live trees that have softer wood such as elms, maples, or willows; both sexes assist in digging nesting cavities.
• Prior to being renamed for one of the local milling families, Guerneville was called Stumptown for the giant redwood stumps left by the loggers.
• The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises.
• The stumps and bails are usually made of wood, most commonly ash, and together form a wicket at each end of the pitch.
• Based on the remaining stumps, over 100 tōtara had been felled, while the bush was also infested with the exotic pest plants Old Mans Beard (Clematis Vitalba) and Wandering Jew (Tradescantia Fluminensis), both detrimental to the forest.
• A girl of only five years old had her ears cut off, her eyes gouged out, both legs amputated at the knees, and by all appearances, was made to walk on her stumps.
• The 1958 side was skippered by future England captain Ted Dexter and his first victim behind the stumps, on his debut for Cambridge against Kent, was also another future England captain, Colin Cowdrey, whom he caught off Dexter's bowling.
• The tallest hill on the island, called Monte Guardia, still has the rotting stumps of the extinct giant trees over eight feet wide.
• There are only two methods of dismissal, being caught or being "Leg Before Wicket", but as there are no stumps, this method of dismissal is effected by a bowled ball hitting the batter's legs typically below the knees.
• Instead, they are collapsible spring-loaded stumps that immediately spring back to the standing position when knocked over.
• The naming of the delivery is attributed to Moin Khan, the former Pakistani wicketkeeper, who would call on Saqlain Mushtaq to bowl the "doosra" (the other one) from behind the stumps.
• However, some playing conditions make byes more likely, regardless of a wicket-keeper's ability – wayward fast bowling, or an uneven pitch, or the need for the keeper to stand directly behind the stumps.
• Some was fine farmland along the Nashua River and other was "sprout" land where trees had been cut leaving stumps.

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