scud

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This white scud--a flying scud of frozen water--was singularly like the scud that is blown from the crest of the waves by a cyclone in the China Seas.

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  1. intransitive verb To run or skim along swiftly and easily: dark clouds scudding by.
  2. intransitive verb Nautical To run before a gale with little or no sail set.
  3. noun The act of scudding.
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  • The shore appeared through scud, and men on a quay shouting. —  The Riddle of the Sands
  • But let's look at these projects; the soviet scud-c project was a flop, the flow fluctuations in the turbopump of the engine grew worse as they tweaked for higher performance, result: accuracy suffered range was good. —  ArmsControlWonk
  • From this you can see that had NorKor aided Iraq's scud-b er program than Iraq would have had a much more advanced project. —  ArmsControlWonk
  • It was fearful to see her scud--agonising to know that she was rushing to destruction At last he could distinguish those on board. —  The Pirate
  • My watch now, and' I won't have one of ye round--scud! —  Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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  1. Possibly from Middle English scut, rabbit, rabbit's tail; see scut1.

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  1. from Danish skyde, shoot, push, shove, scud (orig. *skude, as in comp. skud-aar, leap-year, etc.), = Swedish skutta, leap; secondary forms of Swedish skjuta = Icelandic skjōta, shoot, slip, or scud away, abscond, = Anglo-Saxon sceótan, shoot: see shoot, and cf. scoot, scuddle, scuttle, v., from the same source. The alleged Anglo-Saxon scūdan, ‘run quickly,’ ‘flee,’ does not occur in that sense; it occurs but once, properly *scuddan = Old Saxon skuddian, shake, and belongs to another group, only remotely connected with scud, namely shudder, etc.: see shudder.
  2. from scud, v.
 

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