Cund
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Cund is a verb meaning Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”).
Meaning
Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”).
Example Sentences
These quartermasters are also to take their turns in the cunding of the ship,[…].
a. 1688, John Narborough, quoted in 1990, Brian Tunstall, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815, page 34, […] he was ever calling in the quarter-master which cunded [conned] the ship to luff her nearer, giving me commands to forbear firing till we got up close to them.
Word Forms
- cunds
- cunding
- cunded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cond, cou'dst, can'st, condemnate, covenaunt, conquire.
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