stump up

How to use stump up in a sentence

• The tough job being ended and the Mounds laid low, the hour is come for Boffin to stump up.

  Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens

• "stump up the dross like a man, then, and don't stand whining there like a sucking turkey craving for pity," retorted Captain S——.

  Looking Seaward Again | Walter Runciman

• Later I found their secret—down inside an old charred stump up the canyon.

  A-Birding on a Bronco | Florence A. Merriam

• You can give me a decent funeral--the governor will stump up for that- -and there will be pickings for you.

  Bunch Grass | Horace Annesley Vachell

• And you'd better be thinking what to say to make the jolly old farmers stump up, my dear.

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 | Various