Lexicographical Neighbors of Spudder
Literary usage of Spudder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drill Work, Methods and Costs: A Practical Treatise Covering the Methods by Ray Rochester Sanderson (1911)
"You will notice that as the spudder crank moves from D to the left and down that
it does not begin to ascend until after it is about ^3 past the lower ..."
2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"A peeling crew is commonly composed of four workers; one spudder, ... The spudder
then proceeds to peel off the bark by inserting the spud between the bark ..."
3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"A peeling crew is commonly composed of four workers; one spudder, one fitter,
... After the spudder removes the bark and the bole is sawed into log lengths, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Spud, a garden tool for cutting out the roots of weeds. Also potatoes, HRC Spnd,
a brat. " Be quiet you young spnd." spudder, a fuss, or bother. ..."
5. Glossary of Words in Use in Cornwall by Margaret Ann Courtney, Thomas Quiller Couch (1880)
"Spud, a garden tool for cutting out the roots of weeds. Also potatoes, HRC Spud,
a brat. "Be quiet you young spud." spudder, a fuss, or bother. ..."
6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"Last of all comes the " spudder," whose duty it is to pry off the great flakes
of bark which have been notched and split for him. He takes his name from the ..."
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