Definitions for sudds

sudds sudd

Spelling: [suhd]
IPA: /sʌd/

Sudds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in sudds (ddssu).

Definitions for sudds

noun

  1. (in the White Nile) floating vegetable matter that often obstructs navigation.

Origin of sudds

1870-75; Arabic: literally, obstruction

Examples for sudds

At length the sudd becomes soft and yields to the pressure of the water, and then the Nile is navigable again.

Their advance was impeded by the sudd, and, after writing discouraging reports, their attempt was abandoned.

There was found to be large quantities of grass weed and sudd in the Nile at no great distance from Fashoda.

Scrambling away, they beheld the head of a crocodile protruding through the sudd.

Baker cut through fifty miles of the sudd, and urged the khdive to reopen the Nile.

The sudd was found to be piled up and of almost as close a structure as peat.

The Sudan government, however, sent engineering parties to remove the sudd blocks and open out a continuous waterway.

The sudd, it is supposed, stopped the advance of the Roman centurions who were sent up the Nile in the days of Nero.

Word Value for sudds
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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