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Sculp vs Scull - What's the difference?

sculp | scull |

As verbs the difference between sculp and scull

is that sculp is (obsolete|sometimes|humorous) to sculpture; to carve or engrave while 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.

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.

sculp

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete, sometimes, humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
  • (Sandys)
    (Webster 1913)

    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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