scud, rack
(verb) run before a gale
dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot
(verb) run or move very quickly or hastily; “She dashed into the yard”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
scudded
simple past tense and past participle of scud
Source: Wiktionary
Scud, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scudded; p. pr. & vb. n. Scudding.] Etym: [Dan. skyde to shoot, shove, push, akin to skud shot, gunshot, a shoot, young bough, and to E. shoot. sq. root159. See Shoot.]
1. To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something. The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans. I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. Beaconsfield.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
Scud, v. t.
Definition: To pass over quickly. [R.] Shenstone.
Scud, n.
1. The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
2. Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind. Borne on the scud of the sea. Longfellow. The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon. Sir S. Baker.
3. A slight, sudden shower. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
4. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock. [Prov. Eng.]
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any swimming amphipod crustacean. Storm scud. See the Note under Cloud.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 July 2024
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