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Definition of Spuds
1. spud [v] - See also: spud
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spuds
Literary usage of Spuds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dredging Engineering by Fred Lester Simon (1920)
"The stress in "A" frame or shear legs and back legs or stays are found as for
grapples in Chapter I. spuds.—The two bow spuds are set either in "outside" or ..."
2. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"Vertical and Hank spuds Compared. The greatest variation in the details of floating
dipper dredges is found in the types of spuds used, in the manner of ..."
3. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"Vertical and Bank spuds Compared. The greatest variation in the details of floating
dipper dredges is found in the types of spuds used, in the manner of ..."
4. Earthwork and Its Cost: A Handbook of Earth Excavation by Halbert Powers Gillette (1920)
"Vertical and Bank spuds Compared. The greatest variation in the details of floating
dipper dredges is found in the types of spuds used, in the manner of ..."
5. Dredges and Dredging by Charles Prelini (1911)
"spuds have been used for many years, as evidenced by the machine described ...
spuds may be either vertical or inclined; in the latter case they rest on the ..."
6. Handbook of Construction Equipment: Its Cost and Use by Richard Turner Dana (1921)
"Vertical spuds are comparatively simple, are adaptable to a wide range of ...
The power for raising spuds on some dredges is compounded by means of worm ..."
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