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Culled vs Sculled - What's the difference?

culled | sculled |

As verbs the difference between culled and sculled

is that culled is (cull) while sculled is (scull).

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 ----

    sculled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (scull)

    • scull

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
  • One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
  • A small rowing boat, for one person.
  • A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
    • Derived terms
    * (racing boat) double scull, quad scull, single scull

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
  • * 1908 ,
    • The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.
  • To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
    • Derived terms
    * sculler

    Etymology 2

    See skull. The verb sense may derive from Scandinavian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
  • * 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 11.
    • The scull is a head piece, without visor or bever, resembling a bowl or bason, such as was worn by our cavalry, within twenty or thirty years.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
  • * 2005 , Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia , The Sunday Times, Cadogan Guides, UK, page 59,
    • In 1954, Bob Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds.
  • * 2005 , Stefan Laszczuk, The Goddamn Bus of Happiness , page 75,
    • That way you get your opponent so gassed up from sculling beer that all he can think about is trying to burp without spewing.
  • * 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day , 14th Edition, page 133,
    • For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.
  • * 2010 , Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing , page 136,
    • After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.
    Synonyms
    * chug

    Etymology 3

    See school.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A shoal of fish.
    • (Milton)

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The skua gull.
    • (Webster 1913)

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