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Quotation dates: 1808-1850
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†STUMPLE, v. To walk with a stiff hobbling gait, to stump (Rnf., s.Sc. 1825 Jam.).Rxb. 1808 A. Scott Poems 219:
Syne aff in a fury he stumpled.Dmf. 1823 J. Kennedy Poems 147:
Lang I've stumpl'd o'er the furrow.Rxb. a.1850 J. Younger Autobiog. (1881) 84:
He stumpled in to John the weaver on his loom.
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