noun1. an informal word for potato (sense 1)
2. a narrow-bladed spade for cutting roots, digging up weeds, etc
3. Also called: spudder a tool, resembling a chisel, for removing bark from trees
verbWord forms: spuds, spudding or spudded4. (transitive) to remove (bark) or eradicate (weeds) with a spud
5. (intransitive) to drill the first foot of an oil well
Word origin
C15
spudde short knife, of unknown origin; applied later to a digging tool, and hence to a potato