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Meanings of scudding in English

The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

Usage of scudding in English
1
Now, scudding barely over the rooftops, the destruction seemed far more personal.
New Blood
2
In sight were several canoes with light sails, scudding before the wind.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment
3
Tattered, blue-purple clouds, reddening in the east, were scudding before the wind.
War and Peace
4
The wind had picked up outside, scudding gray clouds over the city.
Mine
5
Most of them were motionless; some, however, seemed to be scudding onward.
Pierre and Jean
6
It was a livid sky, and sooty clouds were scudding across it.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
7
He looked up at the sky where grey clouds were scudding along.
Sovereign
8
The day was raw, with ragged gray clouds scudding across the sky.
American empire: blood and iron
9
We had been scudding three days, when the weather became much worse.
Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
10
The honey light of Faerie was gone, replaced by dark scudding clouds.
The Water Witch
11
The tide was coming in, and the sun shone amidst scudding white clouds.
The Bars of Iron
12
The split path they had made had long been effaced in scudding stone.
Iron Council
13
The moon was full and shed occasional pale gleams through the scudding clouds.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
14
The sky was ragged with gray masses of cloud scudding across the blue.
A Mountain Woman
15
But the head was already withdrawn, and its owner scudding toward the fray.
Mavericks
16
Then, away we went scudding across the South Atlantic Ocean for the equator.
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
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Scudding through the time
Scudding across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common