What is "maud"

Maud \Maud\, n. A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

fem. proper name, from Old French Mahaut, from Medieval Latin Matilda from Germanic (compare Old High German Mahthilda; see Matilda).

n. A grey plaid once worn by shepherds in Scotland.

As a feminine given name: As a placename:

• Queen Maud Land (Norwegian: Dronning Maud Land), an area of 2.5 million square kilometers claimed by Norway in 1938

• Queen Maud Gulf, Nunavut, Canada

• Maud Island, the second largest island in the Marlborough Sounds

• Maud, Aberdeenshire, a small town in the Buchan area of the county of Aberdeenshire

• Maud, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Wabash County
• Maud, Iowa, an unincorporated community in Allamakee County
• Maud, Oklahoma, a city in Pottawatomie County
• Maud, Texas, a city in Bowie County
• Maud, Washington, an unincorporated community

As a ship name:

• SS Dronning Maud, a Norwegian Hurtigruten ship sunk under controversial circumstances by German bombers during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign
• Maud, a ship used from 1918 to 1925 by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen in exploring the Northeast Passage (now known as the Northern Sea Route)
• Maud, a Norfolk wherry built in 1899

• , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919

In literature:

• Maud and other poems, an 1855 volume of poetry by English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "Maud" (poem), title poem in the 1855 volume by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Maud, a werecat in the Inheritance Cycle

Maud may also refer to:

• Maud (plaid), a black and white checked plaid once worn in southern Scotland and northern England
• MAUD Committee, the beginning of the British atomic bomb project, before the United Kingdom joined forces with the United States in the Manhattan Project
• MAUD Program, a program for analysis of materials using diffraction, based on the Rietveld refinement method
• MAUDhomme, a Czech men's fashion magazine

Maud (approximately pronounced "mawd" in English), is an Old German feminine given name meaning "powerful battler". It is a variant of the given name Matilda but is uncommon as a surname.

The name's popularity in 19th century England is associated with Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem Maud. People with the name include:

• Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon (1074–1130), daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and heir to his earldom of Huntingdon
• Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish actress
• Maud Gonne (1866–1953), English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist, actress and long time poetic inspiration to William Butler Yeats
• Maud Meyer, Sierra Leonean Nigerian jazz singer
• Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), Canadian writer
• Maud Mulder (born 1981), Dutch singer
• Maud of Savoy (1125–1158), first Queen Consort of Portugal
• Maud of Wales (1869–1938), also known as "Maud, Queen of Norway", a member of the British Royal Family
• Princess Maud of Fife (1893–1945), member of the British Royal Family
• Empress Matilda, (1102–1169), also known as "Mahaut", "Maud" or "Maude", daughter of King Henry I of England and mother to King Henry II of England
• Maud Flanders, wife of Ned Flanders from The Simpsons
• Maud Pie, older sister of Pinkie Pie from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode of the same name

A maud is a woollen blanket or plaid woven in a pattern of small black and white checks known as Border tartan, Falkirk tartan, Shepherd's check, Shepherd's plaid or Galashiels grey. It was in common use as an item of clothing in the southern counties of Scotland and the northern counties of England until the early twentieth century.