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black stump

black stump noun: an imaginary marker at the edge of civilised land.

Noun

black stump

  1. (Australia) An imaginary marker at the edge of civilised land.

Words formed from black stump

Questions about black stump

What does black stump mean?
Black stump means an imaginary marker at the edge of civilised land.
What part of speech is black stump?
Black stump is a noun.

Words near black stump in the dictionary

  1. black starts
  2. black stork
  3. black storks
  4. black studies
  5. black stuff
  6. black stump
  7. black sugar maple
  8. black sugar maples
  9. black sulfur
  10. black supremacist
  11. black supremacists

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