> Scudding. That's an interesting word. It's a pity, but only clouds are allowed to go scudding. Authors like to say things like, "The next morning the surf was up and there were scudding clouds crossing the sky."
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> Scudding clouds are low clouds that move rather quickly. That's bad news for sailors, so you know the author is planning to send some of his characters to sea at a time when they should have stayed ashore.
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> If you check your dictionary, you may find that scudding is a step in preparing hides for tanning, but I don't want to go into that. Cloud scudding is much more interesting.
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> As always, I wonder about the origin of the term.
> It probably goes back to British sailors in the time when the England ruled the seas. But could there be other uses for the term? How about sledders scudding down a hill in the snow? Or traffic scudding on the Interstate? Or maybe war planes scudding in on a bombing run?
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> Maybe someday we'll all know how to scud like those lucky clouds.
> Howard

I'm such a child of my time. The only "scud" I was previously aware of is the type of missile made famous during the Gulf War. Thanks for providing my generation with a newly expanded vocabulary.

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