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.

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If pure hog manure is used it is apt to produce that corpulent enlargement of the roots known in different localities as "stump foot," "underground head," "finger and thumb;" but I have found barn manure on which hogs have run, two hogs to each animal, excellent.

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

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When the cabbage has a stump the size of a pipe stem it is beyond the destructive ravages of the cut-worm, and should it escape stump foot has usually quite a period of growth free from the attacks of enemies.

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The great dread of every cabbage grower is a disease of the branching roots, producing a bunchy, gland-like enlargement, known in different localities under the name of club foot, stump foot, underground head, finger and thumb.

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