Sudd Definition

sŭd
noun
Floating masses of weeds, reeds, etc. that often obstruct navigation on the White Nile.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sudd

Noun

Singular:
sudd
Plural:
sudds

Origin of Sudd

  • Arabic obstruction, sudd from sadda to obstruct šdd in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sudd Sentence Examples

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

  • On many maps it is marked as the Bahr-el-Arab, a designation also used as an alternative name for the Lol l another tributary of the Ghazal, which eventually unites with the Bahr-el-Homr. The Bahr-el-Homr in its lower reaches was in 1906 completely blocked by sudd, and then brought no water into the Bahr-el-Ghazal.

  • The Sudan government, however, sent engineering parties to remove the sudd blocks and open out a continuous waterway.

  • Like the Bahr-el-Jebel the Bahr-el-Ghazal is liable to be choked by sudd.

  • In 1901 and following years the sudd was removed by British officers from the Bahr-el-Ghazal, the Jur and other rivers.

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Words Starting With

SSUSUD

Words Ending With

DDDUDD

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