scud
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English scud (“incrustation, scurf, scab, peel, shedding”), perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot, push, throw off, shed”) (see also scoot).
Inflected forms:
form: more scud
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scud
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: skud
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: scuds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scudding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scudded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scudded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: skud
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: scuds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Naked.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
slang
gloss: To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: clouds scudding across the sky
When scudding on from snare to snare I plied
My anxious visitation, hurrying on,
Still hurrying hurrying onward ...
From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]
The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […]
I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.
During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in […] Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […]
gloss: To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: If the Main Topsail should by any accident be split, it will be still necessary to have a lofty Sail set in such a Sea, and the close reefed Topsail singly will be the best to scud under.
all night they were obliged to scud under bare poles.
gloss: To hit or slap.
pos: verb
tags: Northumbria
gloss: To speed.
pos: verb
tags: Northumbria
gloss: To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
pos: verb
tags: Northumbria
gloss: To scrape (skins) to remove hair etc. as part of the tanning process.
pos: verb
gloss: The act of scudding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Clouds or rain(s) (or snow, etc) driven by the wind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face […]
... he will have a wet journey, seeing it is apout to pe a scud."
Places near the sea have frequent scuds, that keep the atmosphere moist, yet do not reach far up into the country; making thus the maritime situations appear wet, when the rain is not considerable.
She'll cure this scud o' sentimental win' Wi' something o' a mair substantial kin';
... banks o' scud drave ragged past, And blashed upon his face, For blast on blast, frae the southwast, Did ither raging chace,[…]
... a scud of rain splashed on the window, drowning a sentence of the First Lesson.
Tes nothen but a scud o' snow, If you do talk about gwain, I'll lock 'ee in, same as we did pa'son.
gloss: A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. Such clouds generally are associated with cool moist air, such as thunderstorm outflow.
gloss: A gust of wind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A scab on a wound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any swimming amphipod, usually Gammarus
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A swift runner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A form of garden hoe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A slap; a sharp stroke.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Pornography.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
slang
uncountable
gloss: The drink Irn-Bru.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
slang
uncountable
examples: a bottle of scud
Derived words: scudding sail
scud cloud
scud run
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