/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Stump Orator (in America)
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A person who harangues the people from the stump of a tree or other chance elevation; a mob orator.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.