suddn.
/sʌd/, U.S. /səd/ a. An impenetrable mass of floating vegetable matter which obstructs navigation on the White Nile.
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the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun] > mass of floating plant matter or aquatic roots
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nigger's-head1921
the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > obstruction in > specific > on Nile
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1874 S. W. Baker Ismailïa II. xiii. 488 To remove the sudd or obstruction to the navigation of the great White Nile.
1881 Proc. Royal Geog. Soc. New Ser. 3 301 A survey of the Nile, from the Sobat upwards, to the obstructive sudd in the Bahr el Gebel.
1898 National Rev. Aug. 796 The gunboat's business after Fashoda will be to cut through the sudd and reach Beden as soon as possible.
b. transferred. A temporary dam constructed across a river.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > dam > types of
mill-dam1182
warrant1406
pond head1465
coffer-dam1736
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gather-dam1768
frame dam1774
crib-dam1816
shutter-dama1884
suddc1900
needle gate1909
check-dam1936
gravity dam1940
c1900 B. Baker in Daily Chron. 10 Dec. 9/2 The method of working was to erect temporary dams or ‘sudds’, formed of various materials.
1903 Sci. Amer. 28 Feb. 152/2 To inclose the area, upon which it was intended to work during the season, by temporary dams or ‘sadds’ in November.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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1900 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 2/1 The ‘sudd’ regions of the White Nile.
1900 Daily News 14 July 4/5 Major Peake's sudd-cutting party.
1911 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Jan. 142/1 A factory is to be established in the sudd-country for the production of briquetted water-weed on an extensive scale.
Derivatives
ˈsudded adj. obstructed by sudd.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [adjective] > obstructed by specific vegetation
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1900 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 2/2 In 1898 Lord Kitchener found the Gebel River sudded.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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