sudd

American  

[suhd] / sʌd /

noun

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

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sudd British  

/ sʌd /

noun

1. floating masses of reeds and weeds that occur on the White Nile and obstruct navigation

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Etymology

Origin of sudd

1870–75; < Arabic: literally, obstruction

Example Sentences

The work would become lighter as the head of the sudd would be neared.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

I think the river has opened a new channel, and that the passage of yesterday will take us to nearly the same spot above the sudd that we reached by another route last year.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

This lake is the home of many sudd plants of the "swimming" variety—papyrus and ambach are absent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

A curious accident had happened to Ismail Pacha by the sudden break-up of a large portion of the sudd, that had been weakened by cutting a long but narrow channel.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Such banks of drifting or arrested and decaying vegetation are called sudd, and the more it rains the greater are the quantities that come down.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders