Scull
[skʌl]
Definition
(noun.) a racing shell that is propelled by sculls.
(noun.) each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman.
(noun.) a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward.
(verb.) propel with sculls; 'scull the boat'.
Checker: Mario--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The skull.
(n.) A shoal of fish.
(n.) A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
(n.) One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
(n.) A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
(n.) The common skua gull.
(v. t.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.
(v. i.) To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
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Definition
n. (Milt.) a shoal of fish.
n. a short light spoon-bladed oar: a small boat: a cock-boat.—v.t. to propel a boat with a pair of sculls or light oars by one man—in fresh water: to drive a boat onward with one oar worked like a screw over the stern.—ns. Scull′er one who sculls: a small boat rowed by two sculls pulled by one man; Scull′ing.
Typist: Miranda
Examples
- Scull it is, pardner--don't fret yourself--I didn't touch him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And what's more,--with one scull gone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Look at the t'other scull gone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Nicholas Scull, a surveyor, afterward surveyor-general, who loved books, and sometimes made a few verses. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- And what's more,--with t'other scull jammed in the thowels and broke short off. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Look at the broken scull. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- 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.
- And just below bridge, as we were sculling home, Riderhood crept out of the dark in his boat. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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