A stack may collapse or be eroded, leaving a stump.

Standing outside, a little girl calmly explains how bombs hit her house, leaving her arm a bandaged stump.

Instead of harvesting the whole cabbage, cut the head leaving a short stump.

His right arm was missing from just above the elbow, leaving only a stump within a pinned-up tunic sleeve.

Eventually, erosion will cause the stack to collapse, leaving a stump.

Two of the three masts remained, but the first was trailing with the rigging, leaving a splintered stump.

An octagonal tower was started but never completed, leaving a stump in one corner.

Or, allow the plants to grow to about 8in and cut the whole head off, leaving a 1in stump - a new plant should soon re-sprout.

Before she was abandoned, fire had destroyed her right hand, leaving a thumb and a stump.

But looking down, I saw that my hand was gone, leaving a strangely withered stump from which little blood issued.