stump foot

American  

noun

Furniture.

1. a foot continuing the surfaces of a square leg in an outward flare.

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Example Sentences

Should the soil be naturally very wet it should be underdrained, or stump foot will be very likely to appear, which is death to all success.

From Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop by Gregory, James John Howard

It is evident that by long cultivation soils gradually have diffused through them something that proves inimical to the disease that produces stump foot.

From Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop by Gregory, James John Howard

Any liquid manure is excellent for the cabbage crop; but it should be well diluted, or it will be likely to produce stump foot.

From Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop by Gregory, James John Howard

The cause of stump foot cannot, therefore, be found in the poverty of the soil, either from want of manure or its having been rendered effete from over cropping.

From Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop by Gregory, James John Howard