scuddled

Updated: May 23, 2025

At a certain corner he came to a standstill, proposing to himself the question of turning back toward the showy and fashionable restaurant in which he usually dined on the evenings of his especial luxury. Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk. Chandler assisted her to her feet with instant and solicitous courtesy.

O. Henry - The Four Million

Tom, you and the boy rouse the cable up get about ten fathoms on deck, and bend it. You'll find a bit of seizing and a marling-spike in the locker abaft." The sloop scuddled before the gale, and in less than two hours was close to the headland pointed out by the master. "Now, Newton, we must hug the point or we shall not fetch clap on the main sheet here, all of us. Luff, you may, handsomely.

Frederick Marryat - Newton Forster