scudding

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The noise of it sent the fowls scudding, and the hills around took it up and echoed it He looked at me.

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  1. In leather manufacturing, the process of removing scud by scraping with a knife. See scud, 8. Sadtler, Handbook of Indust, Chem., p. 329.

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  • Lower The rocking, scudding, and buffeting increased. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • Her skin was as pale as the scudding clouds overheard. —  Witch Star.htm
  • Reflection of the volcanic fire against the low-scudding clouds had cast an eerie light over the ocean swells for a mile or more. —  033 - Murder Melody
  • She did not like to think of the crucifixion, she wanted Jesus to be remote, like an angel; like a beautiful high-scudding cloud, borne by the wind overhead; for the most beautiful clouds were shaped above the lake, and scattered by the wind in all directions; and no one except Rebecca Schwart saw. —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
  • And she was left alone to call herself a fool CHAPTER 19 By Friday morning Mother Nature had dumped six inches of new snow on southern Minnesota, and a blast of air had come sweeping down from Saskatchewan to stir it into a ground-scudding cloud that limited visibility to a fraction of a mile. —  TAMI HOAG
 

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