Scull vs Sculk - What's the difference?
scull | sculk |
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.
To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
* 1908 ,
To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
* 1786 , , A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 11.
(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,
* 2005 , Stefan Laszczuk, The Goddamn Bus of Happiness ,
* 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day , 14th Edition,
* 2010 , Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing ,
* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.' }}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Aphra Behn, title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign--with tan'd coloured Lining--once red--but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Jonathan Swift, title=Poems (Volume II.), chapter=, edition=
, passage=Let other nice lords sculk at home from the wars, Prank'd up and adorn'd with garters and stars, Which but twinkle like those in a cold frosty night; While to yours you are adding such lustre and light, That if you proceed, I'm sure very soon 'Twill be brighter and larger than the sun or the moon: A blazing star, I foretell, 'twill prove to the Gaul, That portends of his empire the ruin and fall. }}
As verbs the difference between scull and sculk
is that scull is to row a boat using a scull or sculls or scull can be (australia|new zealand|slang) to drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing while sculk is .As a noun scull
is a single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward or scull can be or scull can be (obsolete) a shoal of fish or scull can be the skua gull.scull
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (en)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* (racing boat) double scull, quad scull, single scullVerb
(en verb)- 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.
Derived terms
* scullerEtymology 2
See skull. The verb sense may derive from Scandinavian .Noun
(en noun)- 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)page 59,
- In 1954, Bob Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds.
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.
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.
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
* chugEtymology 3
See school.Etymology 4
Anagrams
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