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scudding
(encz) | scudding,čistění n: Zdeněk Brož |
scudding
(encz) | scudding,omykání n: Zdeněk Brož |
Scudding
(gcide) | Scud \Scud\ (sk[u^]d), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scudded; p. pr. &
vb. n. Scudding.] [Dan. skyde to shoot, shove, push, akin
to skud shot, gunshot, a shoot, young bough, and to E. shoot.
[root]159. See Shoot.]
1. To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward
by something.
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The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy
surface of warm primeval oceans. --I. Taylor.
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The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded
over the blue heaven. --Beaconsfield.
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2. (Naut.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale,
with little or no sail spread.
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scudding
(wn) | scudding
n 1: the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) [syn:
scud, scudding] |
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scudding
(encz) | scudding,čistění n: Zdeněk Brožscudding,omykání n: Zdeněk Brož |
scudding
(wn) | scudding
n 1: the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) [syn:
scud, scudding] |
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