leg stump
noun Cricket.
either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
QUIZZES
CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!
How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text!
Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.
Question 1 of 10
In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.
Compare middle stump, off stump.
Origin of leg stump
First recorded in 1825–35
Words nearby leg stump
leg break, leg bye, leg drop, leg hit, leg rope, leg stump, leg up, a, leg warmer, leg-break, leg-of-mutton, leg-pull
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Example sentences from the Web for leg stump
When there shall be less than five players on a side, bounds shall be placed 22 yards each in a line from the off and leg-stump.