Terms vs Culled - What's the difference?
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(cull)
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
* 1984', cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO '''culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; ''sleeve notes from ' eponymous album
To gather, collect.
* Tennyson
* 1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 202:
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
(nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
A selection.
An organised killing of selected animals.
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A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
(slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 307:
As a noun terms
is .As a verb culled is
(cull).culled
English
Verb
(head)cull
English
(Culling)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- whitest honey in fairy gardens culled
- Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the programme and the weather.}}
Etymology 2
Perhaps an abbreviation of (cully).Noun
(en noun)- Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.