PUDDINGn.
1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but usually a compound of flour, or meal of maiz, with milk and eggs, sometimes enriched with raisins and called plum-pudding.
2. An intestine.
3. An intestine stuffed with meat, etc. now called a sausage.
4. Proverbially, food or victuals.
Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue.
PUDDING
PUDDENING, n. In seamen's language, a thick wreath or circle of cordage, tapering from the middle towards the ends, and fastened about the mast below the trusses, to prevent the yards from falling down when the ropes sustaining them are shot away.