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Scudding

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.

  1. To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.

    The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans.
    --I. Taylor.

    The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
    --Beaconsfield.

  2. (Naut.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.

Wiktionary
scudding
  1. That scuds or scud. n. The action of the verb ''to scud''. v

  2. (present participle of scud English)

WordNet
scudding

n. the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) [syn: scud]

scud
  1. n. the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) [syn: scudding]

  2. v. run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, flash, shoot]

  3. run before a gale [syn: rack]

  4. [also: scudding, scudded]

scudding

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Usage examples of "scudding".

Moderately buffeted, half-hidden by the shreds of thicker gas scudding across the lamplit night, Fassin had made his way up and out across the sheen of rooftops.

Gavril could see his winged shadow, darker than a cloud, scudding over the snowy fields and hills below.

Admiral Schmidt said, adjusting his raincoat and looking at the scudding overcast.

A great torch of red fire, it, was still scudding southward before the wind.

Like a series of teeth, the range rose ominously, gouging at the gray scudding clouds.

Tarma passed the word on, then, crouching low, crossed the street like one of the scudding shadows cast on the street by high clouds against the moon.

She made herself look away, forcing her attention to the wakening morning and rapidly scudding cloudsq Those clouds, she thought, might make it difficult to call in the helicopter if someone got hurt.