Usually means: Started drilling a well bore.
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  1. spudded: Merriam-Webster
  2. spudded: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spudded: Collins English Dictionary
  4. spudded: Vocabulary.com
  5. spudded: Wordnik
  6. spudded: Wiktionary
  7. spudded: Dictionary.com
  8. spudded: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spudded: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spudded: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spudded: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spud)

noun:  (informal) A potato.
noun:  (informal) A hole in a sock.
noun:  (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
noun:  (obsolete) Anything short and thick.
noun:  (obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
noun:  (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
noun:  (obsolete) A dagger.
noun:  A digging fork with three broad prongs.
noun:  A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
noun:  A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
noun:  A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
noun:  (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
verb:  To dig up weeds with a spud.
verb:  (drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
verb:  (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
verb:  (camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
noun:  A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.
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