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Scull vs Row - What's the difference?

scull | row |

As nouns the difference between scull and row

is that scull is a single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward while row is a line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.

As verbs the difference between scull and row

is that scull is to row a boat using a scull or sculls while row is to propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

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)

    Anagrams

    *

    row

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
  • * Bible, 1 (w) vii. 4
    • And there were windows in three rows .
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • The bright seraphim in burning row .
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
  • A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
    • Synonyms
    * (line of objects) line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats) * (in a table) line
    Antonyms
    * column
    Derived terms
    * long row to hoe

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
  • To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
    • to row the captain ashore in his barge
  • To be moved by oars.
    • The boat rows easily.

    Etymology 3

    Unclear; some suggest it is a , verb.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A noisy argument.
  • * (Byron)
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • A continual loud noise.
    • Synonyms
    * (noisy argument) argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match * (continual loud noise) din, racket

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to argue noisily
    • Synonyms
    * (argue noisily) argue, fight

    Anagrams

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