spud

Etymology
From. Origin unknown; probably related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬. The use of the term for a potato was perhaps first used in New Zealand and Australian dialect and slang.

Noun

 * 1)  A potato.
 * 2)  A hole in a sock.
 * 3)  A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
 * 4)  Anything short and thick.
 * 5)  A piece of dough boiled in fat.
 * 6)  A testicle.
 * 7)  A dagger.
 * 8) A digging fork with three broad prongs.
 * 9) A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
 * 10) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
 * 2) A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
 * 3)  A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
 * 1) A digging fork with three broad prongs.
 * 2) A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
 * 3) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
 * 2) A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
 * 3)  A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
 * 1) A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
 * 2)  A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.

Translations

 * Belarusian: бу́льбіна
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 * Ukrainian: картопли́на


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 * Finnish: kukkahara,
 * Portuguese: escardilho


 * Bulgarian: малка мотика
 * Czech: rýček, sázecí rýč, zahradnická lopatka
 * Finnish: puutarhakuokka
 * Latvian:
 * Polish:, rydelek
 * Russian: ,
 * Ukrainian: моти́ка, сапа́, са́пка


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 * Assamese:
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Verb

 * 1) To dig up weeds with a spud.
 * 2)  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)  To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
 * 4)  To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
 * 1)  To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
 * 2)  To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
 * 1)  To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
 * 2)  To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
 * 1)  To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.

Translations

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Proper noun

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

Translations

 * French: Dauphin Dauphine
 * Italian: La palla avvelenata

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) spoon

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) knife