Culled vs Pullet - What's the difference?
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(cull)
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
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 202:
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.
A selection.
An organised killing of selected animals.
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A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
(slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 307:
A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 588:
* 1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 187:
*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.
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
English
(Culling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- whitest honey in fairy gardens culled
- 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.
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Etymology 2
Perhaps an abbreviation of (cully).Noun
(en noun)- 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)- They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
- The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet , the squire himself [...] attending the door.
- 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.