Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tool or appliance for removing the stumps of trees in clearing woodland.
- noun A dental instrument for extracting the stumps of teeth.
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Examples
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When you take your seat in the butcher's shambles he provides you with a copy of Puck because its jokes are so excruciatingly painful that it pulls your piligerous annex out with a stump-extractor and rubbed aqua fortis into your face with a bath brick, the physical ill would be forgotten in the mental agony.
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He delighted in the details of American "clearing," -- from the first opening of the forest to sunlight, by the felling of trees and stump-extractor, to the neat drain and finished stonewall.
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You know how we used to burn the stumps out; and then somebody invented a stump-extractor, and we pulled them out with a yoke of oxen.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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You know how we used to burn the stumps out; and then somebody invented a stump-extractor, and we pulled them out with a yoke of oxen.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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You know how we used to burn the stumps out; and then somebody invented a stump-extractor, and we pulled them out with a yoke of oxen.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878
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He delighted in the details of American “clearing,” ” from the first opening of the forest to sunlight, by the felling of trees and stump-extractor, to the neat drain and finished stonewall.
James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912
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