Scud

/skʌd/ · adjective

Meaning

(slang, Scotland) Naked..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, Scotland) Naked.
2. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
3. (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.
4. (Northumbria) To hit or slap.
5. (Northumbria) To speed.
6. (Northumbria) To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
7. To scrape (skins) to remove hair etc. as part of the tanning process.
8. The act of scudding.

Example Sentences

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, […]

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.

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• more scud
• most scud
• skud
• scuds
• scudding
• scudded

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