spudded

Verb

spud (third-person singular simple present spuds, present participle spudding, simple past and past participle spudded)

1. (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
   • There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.1936, Radclyffe Hall, The Sixth Beatitude
2. (transitive, drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
   • A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)1911, Isaiah Bowman, United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 257: Well-Drilling Methods, page 46
3. (transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
4. (transitive, camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.

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