a. [f. STUMP sb.1 + -ISH.] Somewhat of the character of a stump.
1618. W. Lawson, New Orchard, viii. (1623), 22. Many trees haue more stumps than boughs, and most trees no well thriuing, but short, stumpish, & euill thriuing boughs.
1845. J. Keegan, Leg. & Poems (1907), 218. He … delivered the stumpish whip and ragged ribbons into the hands of the driver.
