spud

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A potato.

   “We were peeling spuds on afternoon detail back of the lodge at summer camp — Billy Dean and I, and two or three more — and as usual arguing about whether the camp work ought to be done that way or not[…]”

2. isim A hole in a sock.

   “He leans over to one side to get the light, as he darns a hole in the heel of a sock. He is getting pretty smart at it now, and no longer makes spuds in the sock to chafe his heels.”

3. isim A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.

   “With the tank resting upside down on an old towel or blanket, use a spud wrench or a large pair of channel-type pliers to loosen the spud nut.”

4. isim Anything short and thick.

   “As I turned out of the wood, I heard the shrill tone of infant wailing; and as I came towards the cottage, I saw a fine flaxen-headed urchin, some six or seven years old, stamping and beating himself with his clenched little spuds of fists, in a perfect ecstasy of passion […]”

5. isim A piece of dough boiled in fat.
6. isim A testicle.
7. isim A dagger.
8. isim A digging fork with three broad prongs.
9. isim A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.

   “"I rigged up a contraption to hold off those stinking beasts, and I spent a happy day there with a spud."”

10. isim A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
11. isim A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
12. isim A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.

    “This spigot (spud) is used to support the lamp, and allows it to be turned from side to side. The spud fits into a socket in a bracket (receptable^([sic])) or a C-clamp. This fixture enables you to suspend the lighting fixture from an overhead bar […]”

13. fiil To dig up weeds with a spud.

    “There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.”

14. fiil 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.)”

15. fiil To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
16. fiil To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
17. özel isim A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.