(n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
(n.) A dagger.
(n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'll do anything: peel spuds, look after the veg, make an impromptu pud.
(2) Even Don Draper might offer to peel the spuds, for Christ's sake.
(3) I had rice and beans owing to a lack of sufficiently high-calibre spuds.
(4) Since their first date – a memorable combination of Spud U Like, bowling and the pictures – the pair have been inseparable.
(5) Excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) were produced in most EUS and EAS motoneurons by stimulation of ipsilateral and contralateral sensory pudendal (SPud) and superficial perineal (SPeri) cutaneous nerves.
(6) Out there in space, fiddling with his gizmos and worrying his spuds, is Matt Damon .
(7) British scientists working at the government-supported Sainsbury laboratory in Norwich are planning to develop a new variety of super-spud that can resist blight and other diseases and may even be better for us.
(8) The beat still covers traditional areas such as floods, spuds and trees, but it is now centred on science writing, international development and politics, energy, technology, economics, celebrity and lifestyle, as well as business, trade and protest.
(9) A slit lamp, topical anesthesia, and a foreign-body spud greatly facilitate the removal of foreign bodies from the cornea.
(10) That would be a soccer 'trip', the kind where the 'trippee' goes down like a sack of spuds despite not remotely having been touched by the 'tripper'.
(11) It’s a matriarchal story in which dim-but-nice men named Spud and Drum adhere to the rules laid out by their female counterparts.
(12) I have even poached a duck egg in the top as a super special treat.It can also be a really good way to use up leftover stock from cooking a ham and roast spuds and sprouts for Christmas lunch.
(13) Harry Leslie Smith, activist Facebook Twitter Pinterest Harry Leslie Smith The leaders’ debate reminded me of the fruit and veg mongers of my youth who with bluster and bluff tried to convince weary shoppers that their spuds or apples were the best at market.
(14) SERVES 8 new potatoes 1kg (Ratte, Desiree or Maris Piper) water 2 litres salt 49g milk 200g unsalted butter 750g Choose your spud We use a French new potato called Ratte, which has a buttery texture, but you could also use Desiree or Maris Piper.
(15) Knobbly carrots, wonky spuds, bent courgettes and discoloured cauliflowers will return to supermarket shelves after one of the worst growing seasons farmers have experienced in decades.
(16) He goes down like a sack of spuds, and is booked for his trouble.
Stud
Definition:
(n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.
(n.) A stem; a trunk.
(n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
(n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss.
(n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable.
(n.) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
(n.) A stud bolt.
(n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
(v. t.) To adorn with shining studs, or knobs.
(v. t.) To set with detached ornaments or prominent objects; to set thickly, as with studs.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was sparked by Ferguson's decision to sue Magnier over the lucrative stud fees now being earned by retired racehorse Rock of Gibraltar, which the Scot used to co-own.
(2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(3) When female voles were allowed contact with the stud male for only 1 h at the time of mating, 55% exhibited pregnancy failure when exposed to a strange male 48 h later.
(4) In some places the shit was knee deep, and studded with dead pigs.
(5) Ear-piercing techniques include needles, safety pins, sharpened studs, and self-piercing kits.
(6) The country’s supreme court ruled that Imelda Marcos illegally acquired the items, including diamond-studded tiaras and an extremely rare 25-carat pink diamond.
(7) Conversely inhibition of protein kinase C, a second messenger system activated by excitatory amino acids (mitral to granule cell synapse), in the accessory bulb during a 4-h period after mating permits all male pheromones including the stud's to activate pregnancy block.
(8) Glen Johnson eased his way through for a 50th cap and to Hodgson's intense relief, that initial sense of panic when Daniel Agger's studs connected with the top of Jack Wilshere's boot eventually dispersed.
(9) The concentrations of 1-NP and airborne particulates changed significantly in all examined areas in parallel with the rise and fall of the frequencies of studded tire use.
(10) Females paired with stud males exhibited a doubling of uterine weight within 12 h, and vaginal sperm were present after 48 h. This indicates that although behavioral responses to males--including mating--require prolonged contact, physiological responses to males occur rapidly.
(11) The name change made little difference to star-studded Toulon, who ran out 24-18 winners to ensure they remain European club rugby’s top dogs for the third successive season.
(12) Yet Ferguson ignored him and the dispute over stud fees for Rock Of Gibraltar, the retired racehorse, started to have damaging ramifications at Old Trafford, with Magnier and McManus using their position as major shareholders to submit their infamous 99 Questions document, predominantly looking at 13 transfers from the Ferguson era.
(13) When fixed at low CO2 tension, the apical membrane area of the alpha cell was reduced; its surface displayed microplicae as well as microvilli, and the apical cytoplasm contained many vesicles with rod-shaped particles and studs.
(14) An already grim night for United might have been even more harrowing if the referee, Martin Atkinson, had taken action against Marouane Fellaini for embedding his studs in the back of James McCarthy's leg.
(15) The Irish band played at a hotel in Beverly Hills, appearing as part of a star-studded benefit concert for Haiti relief.
(16) 60 min: Marchisio is astounded to see the ref flourish the red card ... for a studs-up challenge on Gimenez.
(17) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
(18) There was little variation in the susceptibility of teneral male and female flies, young fed flies, and fed stud males with all the compounds tested (dieldrin, resmethrin, tetrachlorvinphos, bromophos, and propoxur) and increased tolerance in old fed pregnant flies occurred only with dieldrin and resmethrin.
(19) Two trotter stud farms were visited on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during 1972 and 1973.
(20) Ferguson sued Magnier , a former friend, claiming he had been cheated out of stud fees when the prizewinning horse retired.