cud

I sometimes sit there chewing a phrase like a cow with cud a while before going on.

He was standing in about two feet of cold spring water contentedly chewing his cud.

Molly Donahue wants a vote, but though she cud bound Kamachatka as aisily as ye cud this precint, she ain't qualified f'r it.

He cudden't find a goold mine f'r ye but he cud see th' bottom iv wan through three thousand feet iv bullyon.

Th' on'y way ye or me cud rightly exthricate anny money fr'm a bank wud be be means iv a brace an' bit.

An' with th' missionaries we sint sharpshooters that cud pick off a Chinyman beatin' th' conthribution box at five hundherd yards.