What is "studs"

Usage examples of "studs".

He hated wasting space, and was accustomed to telephone around the studs when a long flight was on the books, to find out if they had anything to send or collect.

Not even the arrival of Billy and Alf could damp my spirits, and we loaded the horses without incident and faster than usual, as two of the studs had sent their own grooms as well, and for once they were willing.

They were two specials going with horses from the studs they worked in.

The stud finder, an invaluable tool used to locate the studs hidden behind the wallboards of a house.

We tried to save the horses from them, but the Germans surrendered the studs to the Russians.

My fingers floated off the studs, I hung as if I were annihilated, and at last very softly and gently I came against the bale and the golden chain, and the crowbars that had drifted to the middle of the sphere.

I kicked off from the bale, therefore, clawed on to the thin cords within the glass, crawled along until I got to the manhole rim, and so got my bearings for the light and blind studs, took a shove off, and flying once round the bale, and getting a scare from something big and flimsy that was drifting loose, I got my hand on the cord quite close to the studs, and reached them.

Had I known then, as I know now, the mathematical chances there were against me, I doubt if I should have troubled even to touch the studs to make any attempt.

He had crawled into the sphere, meddled with the studs, shut the Cavorite windows, and gone up.

One of the studs went to use his rifle, but rejected the idea when he saw how close his target was to several of his friends.

To his right, four studs were pushing a wooden cart laden with metal trash cans filled to the brim with trash.

The four studs pushing the cart were in the lead, the contents of the trash cans already ablaze, pouring whitish gray smoke into the air, obscuring the cart and the nearest Knights.

STARED GLUMLY at the intercom grille for several minutes, then reached out and pressed one of the studs below it.

Klaxons sounded at unexpected times, warning of nothing discernible except that certain studs in a control room had been pressed.

Their murderous attacker had smeared excrement on the studs of his club.