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Spud

noun

An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland. Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato.

A sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds. Synonym: stump spud.

verb

Initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum.

Produce buds, branches, or germinate. Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout.

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"Spud" Quotes from Famous Books

... said. "They would have tattooed you all over and turned you into a nigger and made you marry one of their girls. I'll stay by you, for the chances are they may come back and try again to make you a prisoner. The doctor must manage to do without his spud." ...

— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston

... delightful misshapen yew trees. Madame Valtesi, for instance, was knitting, a thing she had scarcely ever been noticed to do within the memory of man. Mrs. Windsor was going about in garden gloves, with a spud and a pair of clippers, damaging the flower-beds, with an air of duty and almost sacred responsibility. Mr. Amarinth was reading the newspaper like a married man; and Lord Reggie was lying in a hammock, trying to kill flies by clapping his hands ...

— The Green Carnation • Robert Smythe Hichens

... belonging to the Plough, which albe it be no member thereof, yet is it so necessary that the Husbandman which liueth in durty and stiffe clayes can neuer goe to Plough without it, and it is called the Aker-staffe, being a pretty bigge cudgell, of about a yarde in length, with an Iron spud at the end, according to ...

— The English Husbandman • Gervase Markham

... name for the solitary potato which gets into the stew. It's a great mystery how that lonely little spud got ...

— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey

... Marguerite said: "The pears will soon bud." Sister Angelique said she must get her spud And free the earth round the jasmine roots. Sister Veronique said: "Oh, look at those shoots! There's a crocus up, With a ...

— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell

... come to a worse end if she lived, there was no knowing; and Mr. Pullet, confused and overwhelmed by this revolutionary aspect of things,—the tea deferred and the poultry alarmed by the unusual running to and fro,—took up his spud as an instrument of search, and reached down a key to unlock the goose-pen, as a likely place for ...

— The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot