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

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Example Sentences

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sudd

At length we arrived at a sudd of small dimensions with open water beyond.

From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker

We pushed forward with some curiosity, but unfortunately a sudd of vegetable rafts had closed the passage for a short distance, which required about an hour to clean; this delayed the chase.

From Ismailia by Sir Samuel White Baker

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

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

From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

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 Sir Samuel White Baker

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