cund

See also: Cund, cun d', and -cund

English

Verb

cund (third-person singular simple present cunds, present participle cunding, simple past and past participle cunded)

1. Obsolete form of cond (to con (a ship)).
   • a. 1643, William Monson, The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson, volume 45, Navy Records Society, published 1913, page 20:

     These quartermasters are also to take their turns in the cunding of the ship, […] .

   • a. 1688, John Narborough, quoted in 1990, Brian Tunstall, Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail: The Evolution of Fighting Tactics 1650-1815, page 34,

     […] he was ever calling in the quarter-master which cunded [conned] the ship to luff her nearer, giving me commands to forbear firing till we got up close to them.