Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cund

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cund
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”).

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

cunds (present, singular) cunding (participle, present) cunded (participle, past) cunded (past)

Questions

What does cund mean?: Obsolete form of cond (“to con (a ship)”).

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