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Culled vs Pullet - What's the difference?

culled | pullet |

As a verb culled

is (cull).

As a noun pullet is

a young hen, especially one less than a year old.

culled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cull)

  • cull

    English

    (Culling)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • * 1984', cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO '''culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; ''sleeve notes from ' eponymous album
  • To gather, collect.
  • * Tennyson
  • whitest honey in fairy gardens culled
  • * 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 202:
  • Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.
  • To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
  • (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
  • To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A selection.
  • An organised killing of selected animals.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-21
  • , author=Isobel Montgomery , title=A year that showed the best and worst of Britain , volume=188, issue=2, page=31 , date=2012-12-18 , magazine= citation , passage=It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather.}}
  • A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
  • Etymology 2

    Perhaps an abbreviation of (cully).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 307:
  • Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.
    Synonyms
    * See also ----

    pullet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
  • They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
  • * 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
  • The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet , the squire himself [...] attending the door.
  • * 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
  • he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
  • *1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 195:
  • *:The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
  • (slang) A spineless person; a coward.