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"Cuddy" Quotes from Famous Books

... women, who had to provide for their households, knew when they had a cheap bargain; and the sale of the 'cuddies' proceeded briskly. Indeed, when the people had gone away again, and the four lads were by themselves on the quay, there was not a single 'cuddy' left—except a dozen that Rob had put into a can of water, to be given to the grocer in the morning as part payment for the loan ...

— The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols • William Black

... strongly built, with lofty bulwarks, and pierced on the upper deck for eighteen guns, which were mounted on the quarter-deck and forecastle. Abaft, a poop, higher than the bulwarks, extended forward, between thirty and forty feet, under which was the cuddy or dining-room, and state-cabins, appropriated to passengers. The poop, upon which you ascended by ladders on each side, was crowded with long ranges of coops, tenanted by every variety of domestic fowl, awaiting, in happy unconsciousness, the day when they should be required to supply ...

— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... put to bed in various staterooms. Lastly, we would drink some beer in the cabin, which was furnished with a wooden table on cross legs, and with black straight-backed chairs—more like a farm kitchen than a ship's cuddy. The sea and all nautical affairs seemed very far removed from the hospitality of ...

— Falk • Joseph Conrad

Words linked to "Cuddy" : caboose, small ship, ship's galley, galley, cookhouse