draw stumps

verb

Etymology

From the game of cricket, where a day's play is terminated by the umpire drawing the stumps out of the ground.

Definitions

  1. To declare an end to the day's play, and remove the bails and sometimes the stumps.

  2. To cease doing something, at least for the day.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for draw stumps. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA