mud, noun

Forms:
Also mudd.
Plurals:
muds, muddes, mudden.
Origin:
Dutch, FrenchShow more Dutch, from French muid see muid.
obs.
muid.
1795 C.R. Hopson tr. of C.P. Thunberg’s Trav. I. 232A freight contains ten muddes, or about 20 bushels.
1795 in G.M. Theal Rec. of Cape Col. (1897) I. 172He is not allowed to sell his Wheat to any but the Company and Burgher Commissioners for 25 Rix Dollars the 10 Mud or Sacks.
1798 S.H. Wilcocke tr. of J.S. Stavorinus’s Voy. to E. Indies I. 567A mud of wheat amounted to about four gilders; the common wines were sold, from two to three and a half stivers per bottle. [Source Note: A mud is equal to about three bushels.]
1800 Cape Town Gaz. 16 Aug. 1On this Estate are 60 acres of Land, sowed with 50 muds of Corn, 13 muds of Barley and 7 muds of Oats.
1819 G. Barker Journal. 18 Sept.Finished sowing 2 mudden of wheat.
1832 J. Collett Diary II. 16To 1 Mudd Oats, 2 pair hinges, 1 Mudd meal.
1863 W.C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 30Bought a mud of mealies for the horse.
1899 Natal Agric. Jrnl 31 Mar. 3‘Mud’ (muid in South African Dutch) is a very elastic measurement of quantity, and is gradually being superseded by weight measurement.
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