spud

A 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[…]

You can praise God by peeling a spud if you peel it to perfection. Don't compromise. Compromise is a language of the devil. Run in God's name, and let the world stand back and in wonder.

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.

He was getting tall too, and his trousers were short even though his turn-ups had been turned down, and he'd got a spud in his socks where his shoe rubbed where he trod over trying to walk bow-legged to look like a cowboy.

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.

For removing or tightening radiator spud nut.

Anything short and thick.

As I turned out of the wood, I heard the shrill tone of infant wailing; and as I came towards the cottage, I saw a fine flaxen-headed urchin, some six or seven years old, stamping and beating himself with his clenched little spuds of fists, in a perfect ecstasy of passion […]

A piece of dough boiled in fat.

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 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.)

When a well is spudded, the drilling assembly is loosely tied to the guide wires with 1/2″ manila rope.

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

To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.

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