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mud ((v.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:mud up
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1†v.
chink the exterior walls of a house or cabin with mud.
See: mudding
Quotations
1914
It was thoroughly well mudded inside and out, and the inside was papered with the leaves of illustrated magazines that Hornby had given us.
1930
"Better they was muddin up their 'ouses afore a frost. Las' year they leaves them unmudded and nigh froze.
2 — North
apply mud to dog-sled runners.
Quotations
1852
[He first coated the runners with earth or clay tempered with water, coat after coat freezing as rapidly as it was applied.]
1942
Many trips to the mudhole are necessary before the sled is completed, and when several men are mudding together, the first one finished will often help his companion.