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n. Slang A potato.

n. A sharp spadelike tool used for rooting or digging out weeds.

n. A short section of pipe or a threaded fitting that completes a connection, as between a longer pipe and a nozzle, valve, or meter.

v. To remove with a sharp spadelike tool.

v. To begin drilling operations on: spud an oil well.

n. A hole in a sock.

n. Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.

v. 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.

v. To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.

n. A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.

n. A dagger.

n. Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.

n. A potato.

n. A stout knife or dagger.

n. A small spade, or a spade having a small blade, with a handle of any length; a small cutting-blade fixed in the axis of its handle, somewhat like a chisel with a very long handle, for cutting the roots of weeds without stooping.

n. A spade-shaped tool for recovering lost or broken tools in a tube-well.

n. A nail driven into the timbers of a drift or shaft, or fastened in some other way, so as to mark a surveying-station.

n. Any short and thick thing: usually in contempt.

To remove by means of a spud: often with up or out.

To drill (a hole) by spudding (which see, below).

n. A curved chisel-like tool for removing bark.

n. One of several heavy vertical pieces of timber shod with a pointed iron at the lower end, arranged to slide in guides on a floating dredge. When lowered to the bottom the spuds anchor the dredge and hold it in place against the push of the dredging machinery.

n. In archaeology, one of a class of pecked or polished stone implements varying considerably in size and form, but always having a rather broad blade with a sort of handle of variable length: often referred to as spade-like or paddle-shaped implements.

n. In surgery: A flat spade-like instrument used for the detachment of soft parts from bone.

n. An instrument of similar shape used in the extraction of foreign bodies from the eye.

n. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

v. initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum

n. a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds

v. produce buds, branches, or germinate

"The island way of life, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and even "" Bud the spud from the bright red mud "" all evoke vibrant images of the island."

spudded    spudding    spuds   

bore    drill    hand shovel    grow   

spud casing   

spudding    spudded   

spudger    spud gun    spudlike   

dagger    potato   

Blood    Bud    Flood    Judd    Rudd    blood    bud    crud    dud    flood   

millenia    scrubbing-brush    hand-operated    ready-service    safety/selector    cardiopulmonary    whiffler    rumen    sledgehammer    quick-release