cuddy n Cp OED ~ ² 'room or cabin [aft] in a large ship' naut (1660-1845); SMYTH 227 'sort of cabin or cook-room, gen. in the fore-part ... of lighters and barges'; cp DC cud NS (1945, 1960) for sense 4.
   1 A cabin at bow or stern of a small vessel or large boat for accommodation and provisions, usu with defining word aft(er), FORE; esp in an undecked fishing boat, a small enclosed space forward or aft. Also attrib: ~ hole, ~ house, ~ room.
   [1766] 1971 BANKS 128 At 3 o'clock came to the ship very compleatly tired as we had not Pulld off our Cloaths since we came out nor lodgd any where but in the aft Cuddy of our boat. [1779] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 484 James Gready and his crew calked the cuddies of the Beaver, examined her rigging and prepared her for sea. 1842 JUKES i, 220 [It was] an open boat, with a little cuddy at each end, in which it was just possible to stow a bed, leaving barely room enough to sit or lie down. [c1875] 1927 DOYLE (ed) 53 "Huntingdon Shore": 'Twas early next morning, just at break of day, / We arose from our slumber and got underway, / Put bread in the 'cuddy' and pork on the floor, / And shaped her for fishing on Huntingdon Shore. [1879] TUCKER 78 [The craft's] accommodation was limited to a small cuddy, fore and aft. 'I slipped,' wrote the Bishop, 'into the after cuddy, and made myself contented, if not comfortable.' 1910 TOWNSEND 105 In the cuddy of our boat was a tiny iron stove, which, however, took up so much of the little room that there was but space for one man to lie out at length on that side. 1927 DOYLE (ed) 63 "Three Devils for Fish": O crawl into the cuddy, crawl in my old cock, / Haul out me oil trousers, likewise me oil frock. T 96/9-64¹ My father used to take me up in his arms in the night, carry me down and put me into the cuddy o' the boat. T 45/6-64 In the fall o' the year she left to go to St John's in an open boat—she was gangboarded, fore cuddy and after cuddy on her—and breeze come on, they got drove off. 1966 SCAMMELL 91 Let's have a bite of lunch before we start on our second puntload. Pass back that old boiler there in the cuddy. I'll boil the kettle on the after-room while you fellows tend to your lines. T 394/5-67 We never put any fish in what we call the cuddy o' the boat, no fish there [but that time] we had ninety-seven large fish laid down there. We filled her up. 1967 Bk of Nfld iv, 246 Up forward [the Dasher] had a cuddy, which means she was decked over so that a man could crawl and lay down if they were out all night. M 71-95 In [his] day, schooners, or bulleys were common, characterized by their [size], cuddy house and spar or mast.
   2 Bed (in a house).
   P 245-67 [parent to child] Go to your cuddy.
   3 Comb cuddy oar: bow oar (1925 Dial Notes v, 328).
   cuddy sweep: see cuddy oar.
   1949 FITZGERALD 93 ~ Foreward oar, dilldom, etc. Position of oars used in a trap skiff.

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