spud

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noun

Plural noun:

spuds

1.
(informal)A potato.
2.
(informal)A hole in a sock.
3.
(plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
4.
(obsolete)Anything short and thick.
5.
(US, dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
6.
(plural normally, slang)(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
7.
(obsolete)A dagger.
8.
A digging fork with three broad prongs.
9.
A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
1728, Jonathan Swift, A Pastoral Dialogue, 1910, William Browning (editor), The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, 2004, Gutenberg eBook #13621, My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt, / Than strongest weeds that grow these stones betwixt: / My spud these nettles from the stone can part; / No knife so keen to weed thee from my heart.
1885, Richard Jefferies, After London: or Wild England, 2004 [1905], Gutenberg eBook #13944, Deprived of motion by the blow of the club, it can, on the other hand, be picked up without trouble and without the aid of a dog, and if not dead is despatched by a twist of the Bushman's fingers or a thrust from his spud. The spud is at once his dagger, his knife and fork, his chisel, his grub-axe, and his gouge. It is a piece of iron (rarely or never of steel, for he does not know how to harden it) about ten inches long, an inch and a half wide at the top or broadest end, where it is shaped and sharpened like a chisel, only with the edge not straight but sloping, and from thence tapering to a point at the other, the pointed part being four-sided, like a nail.
10.
A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
11.
A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
12.
(film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.

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verb

V_es/s

spuds

V_ing/Gerund

spudding

V_ed/pp

spudded

1.
(transitive)To dig up weeds with a spud.
2.
(transitive)(drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
3.
(transitive)(roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
4.
(transitive)(camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.

name

1.
A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.

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From Middle English spudde (small knife). Origin unknown; probably related to spyd, spjót spear, Spieß. Compare spit. The use of the term for a potato perhaps first appeared in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.