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STUDDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination
Example:
diamond-studded belt
Classified under:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb stud
Context examples:
He opened the basket, and in a minute he had the table all shining with silver and glass, and studded with dainty dishes.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The road still ascended, and we crossed a rock-studded slope which took two days to traverse.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Their leaders were a small man, dark in the face, with his beard done up in two plaits, and another larger man, very bowed in the shoulders, with a huge club studded with sharp nails in his hand.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In addition to having fun at holiday parties this month, your two very best day for love will be Tuesday, December 3, when Venus and Mars, the cosmic lovers, gaze at one another across a star-studded sky.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
With joy I hurried to the window, and saw drive into the yard two great leiter-wagons, each drawn by eight sturdy horses, and at the head of each pair a Slovak, with his wide hat, great nail-studded belt, dirty sheepskin, and high boots.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In front of them, and at the end of the road of yellow brick, was a big gate, all studded with emeralds that glittered so in the sun that even the painted eyes of the Scarecrow were dazzled by their brilliancy.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
There was a main gateway of lichen-studded stone, each side pillar surmounted by mouldering heraldic emblems, but besides this central carriage drive I observed several points where there were gaps in the hedge and paths leading through them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Occasional brooks with pebbly bottoms and fern-draped banks gurgled down the shallow gorges in the hill, and offered good camping-grounds every evening on the banks of some rock-studded pool, where swarms of little blue-backed fish, about the size and shape of English trout, gave us a delicious supper.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged mountain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in cracks and crevices and crannies of the stone.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Finding they were determined to go, the Winkies gave Toto and the Lion each a golden collar; and to Dorothy they presented a beautiful bracelet studded with diamonds; and to the Scarecrow they gave a gold-headed walking stick, to keep him from stumbling; and to the Tin Woodman they offered a silver oil-can, inlaid with gold and set with precious jewels.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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