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Cund vs Cud - What's the difference?

cund | cud |

As verbs the difference between cund and cud

is that cund is obsolete form of lang=en|cond to con (a ship) while cud is could (informal), past of can.

As a noun cud is

the portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

cund

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • .
  • * , in 1913 , Navy Records Society, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson , Volume 45, page 20,
    • These quartermasters are also to take their turns in the cunding of the ship,.
  • * , quoted in 1990 , Brian Tunstall, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815 , page 34,
    • he was ever calling in the quarter-master which cunded [conned] the ship to luff her nearer, giving me commands to forbear firing till we got up close to them.

    cud

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cudu, earlier cwidu, of (etyl) origin. Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit .

    Noun

  • The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

    • Etymology 2

    Shorted form of could.

    Verb

    cud
  • could (informal), past of can.

    • Anagrams

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