stub

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The usually short end remaining after something bigger has been used up.
• noun Something cut short or arrested in development.
• noun The part of a check or receipt retained as a record.
• noun The part of a ticket returned as a voucher of payment.
• noun An entry that has minimal text, no text, or has not been written in full in an online reference work.
• transitive verb To pull up (weeds) by the roots.
• transitive verb To clear (a field) of weeds.
• transitive verb To strike (one's toe or foot) against something accidentally.
• transitive verb To snuff out (a cigarette butt) by crushing.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To grub up by the roots; pull or raise the stub of; pull or raise as a stub: as, to stub a tree; to Stub up roots.
• To clear of stubs; grub up stubs or roots from, as land.
• To make a stub of; cut to a stub; give a truncated or stubbed appearance to; truncate: as, to stub off a post or a quill pen.
• To ruin by extravagance.
• To strike against something projecting from a surface; stump: as, to stub one's foot.
• noun The end of a fallen tree, shrub, or plant remaining in the ground; a stump; now, especially, a short stump or projecting root of inconspicuous size.
• noun A projection like a stump; a piece or part of something sticking out: as, a dog with only a stub of a tail; the stub of a broken tooth.
• noun A short remaining piece of something; a terminal remnant: as, the stub of a pencil or of a cigar; a stub of candle.
• noun A worn horseshoe-nail; a stub-nail; specifically, in the plural, nails, or bits of iron of the quality of old horseshoe-nails, used as material for gun-barrels or other articles requiring great toughness.
• noun Something truncated, resembling a small stump, or constituting a terminal remnant.
• noun The inner end of one of the duplicate numbered blanks in a check-book or the like, which is left in the book with a memorandum corresponding to the check or other blank which is filled out and detached; counterfoil.
• noun Figuratively, a block: a blockhead.
• noun In railroading, any section or piece of track which ends at a station or a siding. The parallel tracks of the train-shed of a terminal station are stub-tracks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To grub up by the roots; to extirpate.
• transitive verb To remove stubs from.
• transitive verb United States To strike as the toes, against a stub, stone, or other fixed object.
• noun The stump of a tree; that part of a tree or plant which remains fixed in the earth when the stem is cut down; -- applied especially to the stump of a small tree, or shrub.
• noun obsolete A log; a block; a blockhead.
• noun The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick.
• noun A part of a leaf in a check book, after a check is torn out, on which the number, amount, and destination of the check are usually recorded.
• noun A pen with a short, blunt nib.
• noun A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron.
• noun (Mach.) the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened.
• noun iron made from stub nails, or old horseshoe nails, -- used in making gun barrels.
• noun (Carp.) a mortise passing only partly through the timber in which it is formed.
• noun an old horseshoe nail; a nail broken off; also, a short, thick nail.
• noun (Lumber Manuf.) the part of the end of a sawn log or plank which is beyond the place where the saw kerf ends, and which retains the plank in connection with the log, until it is split off.
• noun material for a gun barrel, made of a spirally welded ribbon of steel and stub iron combined.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Something blunted, stunted, or cut short, such as stubble or a stump.
• noun A piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record or identification purposes.
• noun A page providing only minimal information and intended for later development.
• noun The remaining part of the docked tail of a dog
• noun An unequal first or last interest calculation period, as a part of a financial swap contract
• verb To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground.
• verb To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots.
• verb To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb clear of weeds by uprooting them
• noun a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt