Sculls
[skʌlz]
Examples
- A quick glance of her practised eye showed her, even through the deep dark shadow, the sculls in a rack against the red-brick garden-wall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And my hands seem nailed through to the sculls. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I banged it a good while with one of my sculls, and at last forced it to leap out of the boat. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But, he promptly set to work to haul up his boat, and make her fast, and take the sculls and rudder and rope out of her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A method of propulsion, similar in principle to the action of sculls at the back of a boat, had been contrived long before the inconvenience of paddle-wheels in Steam Navigation was experienced. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Edited by Annabel