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Scull vs Skull - What's the difference?

scull | skull |

Skull is a alternative form of scull.



As nouns the difference between scull and skull

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 skull is the main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium.

As verbs the difference between scull and skull

is that scull is to row a boat using a scull or sculls while skull is to hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

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

    *

    skull

    English

    (wikipedia skull)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), probably from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skull?s=t

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
    • He was about to roar when, lying among the black sticks and straw under the cliff, he saw a whole skull'—perhaps a cow's '''skull''', a '''skull''', perhaps, with the teeth in it. Sobbing, but absent-mindedly, he ran farther and farther away until he held the ' skull in his arms.
  • A symbol for death; death's-head
    • Derived terms
    * numskull, numbskull * skull and crossbones * (l)
    Synonyms
    * brainpan * cranium (anatomy) * harnpan
    Meronyms
    * (-)
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

    • References

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1586 , , Albion’s England :
    • A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
  • * 1601 , (Philemon Holland) (translator), (Pliny the Elder) (author), , book IX, chapter xv: “Of the names and natures of many fishes.”:
    • These fishs, togither with the old Tunies and the young, called Pelamides, enter in great flotes and skulls , into the sea Pontus, for the sweet food that they there find: and every companie of them hath their fever all leaders and captaines; and before them all, the Maquerels lead the way; which, while they be in the water, have a colour of brimstone; but without, like they be to the rest.
    (Webster 1913) ----