How to pronounce“spud”in English
Um, there's no snaps in it. So, when you unscrew the back screws, you can just take the back case off. You don't have to figure out where to put your little
spudger to get it out. Um, and then, you know, we put some considerations into the battery so that it's easy to take in and out as well. You don't have to deal
with any wires or adhesives. It just kind of snaps into place.
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Definitions of “spud”
A potato.
“We were peeling spuds on afternoon detail back of the lodge at summer camp — Billy Dean and I, and two or three more — and as usual arguing about whether the camp work ought to be done that way or not[…]”
A hole in a sock.
“He leans over to one side to get the light, as he darns a hole in the heel of a sock. He is getting pretty smart at it now, and no longer makes spuds in the sock to chafe his heels.”
To dig up weeds with a spud.
“There was thistle-spudding all over the Marsh; an army of thistles, an army of spudders.”
To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
“A rope called the jerk line is attached to the wrist pin of the band-wheel crank, brought inside the derrick, and attached to the part of the drilling cable which extends from the crown pulley to the bull-wheel shaft by a curved metal slide called a spudding shoe. (See fig. 8.)”
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