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hudd

The English word “hudd” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A portable wooden graveside shelter, typically resembling a sentry box, formerly used in England to protect the officiating clergyman from bad weather during a burial service.

Etymology

Unknown. Sometimes connected with hood, but this derivation is uncertain.

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