scun2 v also skun. Cp EDD ~ v1 1 'to run swiftly,' 2 'to throw with quick and hasty effort' for sense 1.
1 To swim, sail, move, haul or snatch swiftly.
P 148-65 Tuna scun along just below the surface of the water. 1963 PARSONS 19 "My Little Town": Of vessels too, that skunned their way to hunt / For seals in March out on the Gulf and Front. 1968 SCHULL 112 The ship was scurming easily through one of the rare patches of open water. M 68-24 We jest scunned up the anchor and wez about to 'ead fer lan' when a big brute turned belly up right gin the boat. C 71-18 Look at the marbles I scunned off Tom! C 71-118 Scunning about refers to persons who are always going from one place to another [idly]. C 75-140 [The old man often used to say] 'scun that old punt up on the beach and scrape her.' They also had to scun water and wood into the house.
2 To fasten parts of a fish-net together; to repair a net, often in temporary fashion.
1937 DEVINE 43 ~ To join nets or linnet together by stitching the edges with twine. 1956 Evening Telegram 12 Dec, p. 11 The leaves [of the cod-trap] are 'scunned' (fastened by twine) together to form the wall. Reason for the leaf construction is that if any part of the trap is badly damaged. the entire leaf can be taken out and a new one quickly installed. T 66/84 No, he didn't knit that. That's an old piece o' net I had. An' he scunned it all together, see. T 250-66 Oh, you knit the head, an' then you scun it in those loops after. C 71-20 After a storm, when the nets would be in disrepair and need mending [he would say) 'I have to go scun the nets.' P 9-73 After the bottom has been scunned in, it is taken by the middle of the back and stretched lengthwise. C 75-132 To scun a net (is] to draw the sides of the cut or hole in net together instead of mending every mesh. P 127-77 ~ To attach two nets of a different mesh-size. P 237-77 ~ To repair a net by taking up broken meshes and knotting these together at intervals.
3 To sew or stitch clothing rapidly (P 245-56).
P 207-67 She cut out the dress and I scunned it up. P 157-73 ~ To sew up carelessly. P 178-73 The missus jest scunned up the hole in me garnsey.
