What does cund mean?
Cund means Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”)..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a 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.
These quartermasters are also to take their turns in the cunding of the ship,[…].
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Cund means Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”)..
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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.
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