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▪ I. scudding, vbl. n.1|ˈskʌdɪŋ|
[f. scud v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb in various senses.
1583Golding Calv. on Deut. xxiv. 140 There is scudding from aultar to aultar. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine ii. (1780), Treou, a square-sail, used in scudding. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 81 Scudding will tend to carry the ship beyond its influence.
b. Comb.: scudding-pole, ‘a pole erected for the purpose of shooting herrings conveniently into the hold’ (E.D.D.); scudding-stone, a thin stone that can be made to skim the surface of a body of water.
1874Holdsworth Deep-Sea Fishing 110 The ‘scudding-pole’..is fixed fore and aft between the mitch-board and the mast. 1897E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches xv. 166 While her great bobble of a lad's aye flinging scuddin'-stanes in Keeldar's Pool.
▪ II. scudding, vbl. n.2 Tanning.|ˈskʌdɪŋ|
[f. scud v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. scud3. Also attrib.
1882Paton in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 384/1 This is partly accomplished by going over the hide on the beam with a scudding knife. Ibid. 389/2 The general sequence of unhairing..scudding, washing, and treating with the bran drench is the same as in the case of other skins.
▪ III. scudding, ppl. a.|ˈskʌdɪŋ|
[f. scud v.1 + -ing2.]
That scuds, in senses of the vb.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. ii. (Arb.) 126 That shafte whiche one yeare for a man is to lyghte and scuddinge, for the same selfe man the next yeare may chaunce be to heuy and hobblynge. 1762Falconer Shipwreck iii. 35 What regions now the scudding ship surround. 1849Helps Friends in C. ii. iv. (1851) II. 6 Strange images are sought out in the scudding clouds. |