scud

1. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).Examples: "When scudding on from snare to snare I plied My anxious visitation, hurrying on, Still hurrying hurrying onward ..."; "From the thick copse the roebucks bound, The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]"; "The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […]"intransitive

2. (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with few or no sails set.Examples: "If the Main Topsail should by any accident be split, it will be still necessary to have a lofty Sail set in such a Sea, and the close reefed Topsail singly will be the best to scud under."; "all night they were obliged to scud under bare poles."ambitransitive

3. (Northumbria) To hit or slap.Northumbria

4. (Northumbria) To speed.Northumbria

5. (Northumbria) To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.Northumbria

1. (uncountable) A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.Examples: "Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. Such clouds generally are associated with cool moist air, such as thunderstorm outflow."Synonyms: pannus, fractusuncountable

2. (Bristol) A scab on a wound.countableuncountable

3. (slang, uncountable, Scotland) Pornography.Scotlandslanguncountable

4. (slang, uncountable, Scotland) The drink Irn-Bru.Examples: "a bottle of scud"Scotlandslanguncountable