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Outboard vs Seagulling - What's the difference?

outboard | seagulling |

As nouns the difference between outboard and seagulling

is that outboard is an outboard motor while seagulling is the practice, in Rugby Union, of forwards running in the back line rather than concentrating on their primary positional duties in open play (see rugby union positions).

As an adjective outboard

is situated outside the hull of a vessel.

As a verb seagulling is

present participle of seagull.

outboard

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Situated outside the hull of a vessel.
  • Positioned away from the centre line of a ship or aircraft.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outboard motor.
  • A vessel fitted with an outboard motor.
  • A studio having outboard gear (compressor, equalizer, etc.).

    • seagulling

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The practice, in ).
  • * '>citation
  • * 2009 , Steve Hepburn, " Rugby: Oval ball gazing for 2011 World Cup", Otago Daily Times , 28 December 2009:
    • Jack has to cut out the seagulling and get in and do the dirty work.
  • * '>citation
  • The practice of using a outboard.
    • I'm going take the boat out and do some seagulling .
  • * '>citation
  • * 2011 , Martine Purssell, " News From Bermuda - 2011 R. I. S. R", The Gull , September 2011:
    • The Seagull and Heineken gods were with us — what a wonderful day weather wise — an ideal Seagulling race day — winds were light — and crossing the harbour to Sandys Boat Club at 7.15am the water was glassy.
  • * 2012 , " Camden Sutherland's 'Waikato Bullet Boat'", The Gull , March 2012:
    • It isn't often young people get involved in Seagulling , never mind build their own boat to do so.
  • The practice of working as a non-union casual stevedore.
  • * 1995 , Bryan Gould, Goodbye to All That , Macmillan (1995), ISBN 0-333-63800X, page 22:
    • Sometimes I went down to the Wellington wharves for what was called 'seagulling' , where I joined a crowd of other men just before 8 a.m., hoping to be given the nod for a day's work.
  • * 1997 , Phillip Knightley, A Hack's Progress , J. Cape (1997), ISBN 9780224043991, page 25:
    • After two months there was a lull on the waterfront, seagulling declined, and I had to seek another job. By this time my hands were hard and I actually looked like a labourer, so the New Zealand Posts and Telegraph department took me on as a linesman.
  • * 2001 , Archie Green, Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture , University of North Carolina Press (2001), ISBN 9780807826058, page 180:
    • As a young shipwright, I heard old timers warn me against seagulling or bypassing the union hall while seeking work.

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