- to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
- (of an arrow) to fly too high and wide of the mark.
- the act of scudding.
- clouds, spray, or mist driven by the wind; a driving shower or gust of wind.
- low-drifting clouds appearing beneath a cloud from which precipitation is falling.
- to cleanse (a trimmed and roughly depilated skin or hide) of remaining hairs or dirt.
- the hairs or dirt removed by scudding.
- a surface-to-surface missile, especially one deployed on a mobile launcher.
- (esp of clouds) to move along swiftly and smoothly
- to run before a gale
- to hit; slap
- the act of scudding
- meteorol
- a formation of low fractostratus clouds driven by a strong wind beneath rain-bearing clouds
- a sudden shower or gust of wind
- a slap
- a Soviet-made surface-to-surface missile, originally designed to carry nuclear warheads and with a range of 300 km; later modified to achieve greater range: used by Iraq in the Iran-Iraq War and in the Gulf Wars