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Definition of Scuds
1. scud [v] - See also: scud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scuds
Literary usage of Scuds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere by Georg Hartwig (1875)
"... of 1780—Dimensions of Cyclones—Calm in the Centre of a Cyclone—Sudden Squalls
Particularly Dangerous to Vessels— Storm scuds—Dampier's Description of a ..."
2. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"Life wakes around—the red-bird darts Like flame from tree to tree ; The frightened
hare scuds by my path, Aud seeks the thicket nigh ; The squirrel climbs ..."
3. On Three Several Hurricanes of the Atlantic: And Their Relations to the by William C. Redfield (1846)
"The several columns show, successively, the dates,—observed direction of the
storm-wind at the surface,—the simultaneous direction of the storm-scuds,—and ..."
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