▪ I. hud, n.1 Obs. exc. dial.
(hʌd)
Also 5–6 ? hudd(e, pl. huddes.
[Origin uncertain.
It has been conjectured to be a dial. form of hood, corresp. to the current pronunc. of blood, flood, and Sc. wud = wood; but against this there are many considerations, connected with the age, use, and locality of the word, its non-interchange with hood in other senses, etc. If it was an (unrecorded) old word, it might be a deriv. of the Teut. root hud-, hūd-, to cover, whence hide vb., hut, and perh. house, husk. In sense hud is identical with MDu. houde ‘tunica, concha, cortex, siliqua, calyx, et spica’, cf. boon-houde bean-hull (Kilian); but this is a deriv. of houden, to hold.]
The husk or sheath of a seed; the hull or shell of a fruit; a pod or seed-vessel; † fig. an empty person who has ‘nothing in him’. (See also quot. 1893.)
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxv. (Tollem. MS.), Þe stalke [of wheat] is biclippid with leues and huddes [ed. 1535 hulles]. 1549 Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 84 Ye hoddy peckes, Ye doddye poulles, ye huddes, do ye beleue hym? 1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. xli. 711 Almondes..blanched or made cleane from their skinnes or huddes. 1622 R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 87 They have hudds as our beans. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (1757) 126 (E.D.S.) Hood, the outer coat of a seed. 1790 Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Hud, the husk of a nut or walnut. Glouc. 1876 Oxfordsh. Gloss., Hud, a pea-shell. 1882 Jago Cornish Gloss., Hud, or hull, a shell, as of a nut. 1893 Wiltsh. Gloss., Hud (1) The husk of a walnut, skin of a gooseberry, shell of a pea or bean, etc... (3) A finger-stall or finger of a glove. |
Hence hud v. trans. dial., to shell.
| 1790 Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2), To hud, to take off the husk. Glouc. 1890 Berksh. Gloss. s.v., Get them warnuts hudded. 1893 S.E. Worc. Gloss. s.v., I a bin a 'uddin some bannits. |
▪ II. hud, hood, n.2 north. dial.
(hʌd, hʊd)
Also 7 hudd(e, 8 hod.
[Of uncertain origin and history. It is not certain that senses 1 and 2 are the same word.
Evidently distinct from hud n.1 Hude, in sense 1, quot. 1483, might be, as to form, northern for hood, with which also Kennett and Craven Dial. identify sense 2; but it is difficult to see any connexion of sense.]
† 1. A log placed at the back of the fire-place to keep the fire in by night; = head-block 1. Obs.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 191/1 An Hude..repofocilium. a 1500 Ortus Voc., Repofocilium, id est quod tegit ignem in nocte, a hudde. |
2. The place behind, or at the back of, a fire-place of the old fashion; the back of the chimney or grate; also = hud-end (see 3).
| 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 122 [To beek or dry osiers] they take the stickes and sette them up an ende, slanttinge them against the hudde, and keepe a good fire under them. 1658 Burgery Sheffield (1898) 168 For making two hudds and materialls therto 2s. 6d. a 1728 Kennett in Laud MS. 1033 lf. 190 [184] Ye Hod or hood, the back of the Chimney Box called the Hob in Chesh. 1791 Statist. Acc. Scotl. II. 289 (Jam.) A species of clay..of which the country people make what they call, Hudds, to set in their chimnies behind their fires. 1825 Brockett, Hud, the side of the fire place within the chimney. 1828 Craven Dial., Hood, Hud, the place behind the fire. |
3. Comb. hud-end (hood-end), each of the two raised flat surfaces of stone or iron at the sides of an old-fashioned fire-place; a hob; hud-stone, the stone of which the hud-end is the upper surface, the hob-stone.
| 1828 Craven Dial., *Hood-end, corners near the fire, either of stone or iron. 1863 Mrs. Toogood Yorks. Dial., Take the kettle off the fire and put it on the hood-end. |
| 1697 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 343 For setting up barrs and *hudstones in the vestery. 1825 Brockett s.v. Hud, Pans not in use are placed on the ‘hud-stane’. 1883 Almondbury Gloss., Hudstone, the hob, or hobstone, of the fireplace. |
▪ III. hud(de
obs. pa. tense and pple. of hide v.1; obs. f. hood.