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Cunds vs Bunds - What's the difference?

cunds | bunds |

As verbs the difference between cunds and bunds

is that cunds is third-person singular of cund while bunds is third-person singular of bund.

cunds

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cund)

    • 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.

    bunds

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bund)
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    bund

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (term), from (etyl).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
    • The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds''', which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the '''bund wall. — Second progress report on the Buncefield investigation [http://www.buncefieldinvestigation.gov.uk/reports/report2.pdf]
  • (pond in which fish are stored for breeding).

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
    • Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work. RIW Ltd. Waterproofing Products
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