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scudding

scudding is the present participle and gerund of scud.

Meaning of scud

Verb

scud (third-person singular simple present scuds, present participle scudding, simple past and past participle scudded)

  1. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
    • clouds scudding across the sky
  2. (ambitransitive) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.
    • 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.1835, Darcy Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor
  3. (Northumbria) To hit or slap.
  4. (Northumbria) To speed.
  5. (Northumbria) To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
  6. To scrape (skins) to remove hair etc. as part of the tanning process.

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Noun

scudding (plural scuddings)

  1. The action of the verb to scud.
    • The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39

Adjective

scudding (not comparable)

  1. That scuds or scud.
    • Three times the Mexican gegenpress drew a scampering counterattack, whirring in on goal only to be foiled by a scudding last-ditch tackle or a last pass just awry. Germany were there for the taking, cut open with extraordinary relish by the Mexico attack.2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...
    • all times I have enjoy'd
      Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
      That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
      Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades (10)
      Vext the dim sea1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

Forms of scudding

pluralscuddings

Phrases with scudding

Questions about scudding

What does scudding mean?
Scudding means the action of the verb to scud.
What is scudding the present participle and gerund of?
Scudding is the present participle and gerund of scud.
What part of speech is scudding?
Scudding can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of scudding?
The plural of scudding is scuddings.

Words near scudding in the dictionary

  1. scudded
  2. scudder
  3. scudders
  4. scuddick
  5. scuddicks
  6. scudding
  7. scudding sail
  8. scudding sails
  9. scuddings
  10. scuddle
  11. scuddled

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