stump
noun
the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
had been stumping
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past perfect progressiveof stump.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Though Hoffmann can roll out a soul-jarring sermon as if he had been stumping the hill country all his life, he insists that evangelism is not only "proclamation" but social action as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bohr waspishly lectured G. P. Thomson of the Cavendish, who had been stumping for Cockcroft and Walton.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
