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>>>>>Stumps? They aren't what remains of a tree after it's been cut down. It's more like a long peg pushed into the ground.
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>>>Well, stump actually has 3 meanings. Of the "long pegs" you describe, there are 3. The off stump, the middle stump and the leg stump. Collectively these are (obviously) called the wicket.
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>>Don't forget the 2 cross-pieces, the bails!
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>Which you, obviously, can use to get someone out of jail until trial. I'm amazed at the weird traditions of the British legal system... accepting pieces of wood for that.
Sometimes I think you must be a member of a new species of human: Homo Nym :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
