studdin

I've seen her off the Horn with studdin 'sails set, when craft twice her length and tonnage had everything furled above the tops'l yard.

Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Stuck out each side of his face pretty nigh big as old-fashioned studdin 'sails.

Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But the section boss must have used rail spikes and reinforced the studdin 'with fishplates when he built that coop for Danny, or else the big Hun was too tight a fit to get full play for his strength.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

After studdin abaat it a bit an idea struck him, an 'off he set to seek th' policeman 'at wor o' that beat, an get him to wakken him.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

You see, Miss Nina, what I 's studdin 'on, lately, is, how to get dese yer chil'en to Canaan; and I hars fus with one ear, and den with t' oder, but 'pears like an't clar 'bout it, yet.

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I 1856

And yer she sits peaceful-like just ez if she'd never been outer a pertater patch, and hadn't ploughed the sea with fo'sails and studdin 'sails and them things cavortin' round her masts. "

By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte 1869

Now, I 's a studdin on dat dare most all de morning -- was so, "said

Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I 1856