Studded

ppl. a. [f. STUD v. and sb.¹ + -ED.]

  1.  Set with or as with studs or large-headed nails.

1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Tachonado, studded, nailed, Bullatus, clauatus.

1592.  Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 37. The studded bridle on a ragged bough, Nimbly she fastens.

1663.  Cowley, Hymn to Light, xix. Verses & Ess. (1669), 37. A Crown of studded Gold thou bear’st.

1696.  Mandey & Moxon, Mech. Powers, IX. i. (1699), 176. A Studded Wheel is, that in whose Periphery little Sphæres, or Convex Hemisphæres are disposed, or the Concaves are made hollow answering to the Convexes in the other Wheel.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 555. Swift Rivers are with sudden Ice constrain’d; And studded Wheels are on its back sustain’d.

a. 1776.  J. Ellis, Zoophytes (1786), 16. Flustra bullata. Studded Sea Matt.

1804.  J. Grahame, Sabbath, 281. That house, with studded doors, And iron-visor’d windows.

1805.  Scott, Last Minstrel, I. xvii. Orion’s studded belt is dim.

1845.  G. Dodd, Brit. Manuf., Ser. IV. 106. The horizontal warp-threads, with the studded barrel … over them, form what we may term the permanent furniture of the carpet weaver’s loom.

1860.  J. Hewitt, Arms & Arm., II. 122. Studded armour is found during this [the 14th] century.

  b.  Of a surface: Diversified by a number of prominent or conspicuous objects.

1823.  Byron, Island, II. xi. The lightly-launch’d canoe Which stemm’d the studded archipelago.

  2.  Built with studs or upright laths.

1805.  R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. 94. Five square of studded partitions.

  3.  Arch. Of a molding: Ornamented with studs.

1843.  Bloxam, Princ. Gothic Archit., iv. (ed. 5), 87. [Norman mouldings] The studded trellis.

1855.  Man. Gothic Mouldings, 21. The studded patterns are of endless variety, the round studs receiving crosses, circles, or stars, according to the sculptor’s pleasure.

1866.  Parker, Concise Gloss. Terms Archit., 151. The Star, the Billeted Cable, the Nebule, the Studded, the Indented, the Scolloped, [and other mouldings].

  4.  Of a projectile: Furnished with studs. (See STUD sb.¹ 7 c.)

1870.  Pall Mall Gaz., 24 Oct., 12. It is an easy and popular error to suppose that a lead-coated tightly fitting shot must shoot better than a studded shot.

  5.  Naut. Of the links of a chain: Strengthened with studs.

1901.  J. Black, Scaffolding, 88. Crane chain, with short links, may be proved to fourteen tons, and cable chain, with studded links, to eighteen tons.

  6.  U.S. In parasynthetic adjs.: high-studded, low-studded, having a great or small ‘stud’ or vertical dimension. (See STUD sb.¹ 3.)

1787.  M. Cutler, in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888), I. 269. It is a very large chamber, and high studded.

1884.  Howells, Silas Lapham, iii. 54. Certainly, have the parlours high-studded…. Have the entrance-story low studded.

1891.  F. D. Millet, in Harper’s Mag., Dec., 119/1. The roof of the house slanted from back to front, so that the two rooms were lower studded than the studio.