Definition of Scads

1. Noun. A large number or amount. "She amassed stacks of newspapers"


Definition of Scads

1. Noun. (a usually in this plural form) A large number or quantity ¹

2. Noun. (plural of scad) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scads

1. scad [n] - See also: scad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scads

scabredity
scabrid
scabridulous
scabrities
scabrities unguium
scabrosity
scabrously
scabrousness
scabrousnesses
scabs
scabwort
scacchic
scacchite
scad
scads (current term)
scaevity
scaff
scaffie
scaffies
scaffold
scaffold hopping
scaffold protein
scaffold proteins
scaffoldage
scaffolded
scaffolder
scaffolders
scaffolding

Literary usage of Scads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... contains the -mackerel scads of which there are several species, only 5 of which occur within our limits. One of these, D. punctatus, known as the scad, ..."

2. The Desire of the Moth: And The Come on by Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1920)
"But, I say, Billy, you'll have to furnish the scads for bait, in case he don'f rise to something easy. I know you're flush from that Manning job. ..."

3. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"The pilchard visits this coast in the early autumn. These are I ho lish par ci: of the Cornish, and they are thus distinguished. BH. 428. scads AND ..."

4. English Folk-rhymes: A Collection of Traditional Verses Relating to Places by G. F. Northall (1892)
"scads AND TATES. scads and tales, scads and tales, scads and tales and conger, And those who can't eat scads and tales, Oh ! they must die of hunger. ..."

5. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1824)
"Regulations and Restrictions, in all respects, as the Boun- ics on Pilchards and scads repealed by this Act were paid and ..."

6. Cornish Saints & Sinners by J. Henry Harris (1906)
"scads. Now, scads are of small value, and yet Dick got them all, and Hugh all the mackerel. Hugh did the sharing: " Here's a mackerel for me, and a scad for ..."

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