scud has definitions from the fields of nautical,transportation
1
[ verb ] run or move very quickly or hastily

Examples

"She dashed into the yard"

Used in print

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

It was a delayed moon , but now the sky had cleared of scudding black and the stars sugared the silver-gray sky .

2
[ verb ] (nautical,transportation) run before a gale

Synonyms

rack

Related terms

sail navigation

3
[ noun ] the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

Synonyms

scudding

Related terms

speed

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