LekhoriLekhoriA potato.
We were peeling spuds on afternoon detail back of the lodge at summer camp — Billy Dean and I, and two or three more — and as usual arguing about whether the camp work ought to be done that way or not[…]
A hole in a sock.
He leans over to one side to get the light, as he darns a hole in the heel of a sock. He is getting pretty smart at it now, and no longer makes spuds in the sock to chafe his heels.
A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
With the tank resting upside down on an old towel or blanket, use a spud wrench or a large pair of channel-type pliers to loosen the spud nut.
To dig up weeds with a spud.
There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.
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.
A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.
From Middle English spudde (“small knife”). Origin unknown; probably related to Danish spyd, Old Norse spjót (“spear”), German Spieß (“spear; spike; skewer”). Compare English spit (“sharp, pointed rod...
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A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)
To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.