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Cund
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Cund
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cund
cund
See also: -cund
English
Verb
cund (third-person singular simple present cunds, present participle cunding, simple past and past participle cunded)
- Obsolete form of cond (to con (a ship)).
- a. 1643, William Monson, in 1913, Navy Records Society, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, Volume 45, page 20,
- These quartermasters are also to take their turns in the cunding of the ship, […] .
- a. 1688, John Narborough, quoted in 1990, Brian Tunstall, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815, page 34,
- […] he was ever calling in the quarter-master which cunded [conned] the ship to luff her nearer, giving me commands to forbear firing till we got up close to them.
- a. 1643, William Monson, in 1913, Navy Records Society, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, Volume 45, page 20,