Definition of "scudding"

The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.

1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39

Three times the Mexican gegenpress drew a scampering counterattack, whirring in on goal only to be foiled by a scudding last-ditch tackle or a last pass just awry. Germany were there for the taking, cut open with extraordinary relish by the Mexico attack.

2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, archived from the original on 5 August 2019

all times I have enjoy'dGreatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with thoseThat loved me, and alone; on shore, and whenThro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades (10)Vext the dim sea

1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses