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Spud

verb

Initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum.

Produce buds, branches, or germinate. Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout.

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"Spud" Quotes from Famous Books

... said. "They would have tattooed you all over and turned you into a nigger and made you marry one of their girls. I'll stay by you, for the chances are they may come back and try again to make you a prisoner. The doctor must manage to do without his spud." ...

— Peter Trawl - The Adventures of a Whaler • W. H. G. Kingston

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