Kees Kaldenbach, Dutch art historian and Vermeer expert, has extensively researched the artist's connections to his hometown Delft. Among other things, he identified the tow barges, freight ships and herring busses that populate the View of Delft and even the specific time of the year which Vermeer represented.
(stÅ­mp) n. 1. The part of a tree trunk left protruding from the ground after the tree has fallen or has been felled. 2. A part, as of a branch, limb, or tooth, remaining after the main part has been cut away, broken off, or worn down. 3. a. stumps Informal The legs.
Definition of mooring. 1  1 : an act of making fast a boat or aircraft with lines or anchors. 2  2a : a place where or an object to which something (as a craft) can be mooredb : a device (as a line or chain) by which an object is secured in place. 3  3 : an established practice or stabilizing influence : anchorage 2 âusually used in plural.