Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To pick out from others; select.
- transitive verb To gather; collect.
- transitive verb To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example).
- noun Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To gather; pick; collect.
- To pick out; select or separate one or more of from others: often with out.
- To inspect and measure, as timber.
- noun Something picked or culled out; specifically, an object selected from among a collection or aggregate, and placed on one side, or rejected, because of inferior quality: usually in the plural: as
- A Middle English form of
kill . - A variant of
coll . - noun A fool; a dupe.
- noun A local English (Gloucestershire) name for the fish miller's-thumb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect.
- noun A cully; a dupe; a gull. See
cully .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang, dialectal A
fool , gullible person; adupe . - verb To
pick ortake someone or something (from a larger group). - verb To
gather ,collect . - verb To
select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. - verb nonstandard, euphemistic To
kill (animals etc). - verb To
lay off in order toreduce thesize of,get rid of . - noun A
selection . - noun An organised
killing of selectedanimals . - noun A piece unfit for
inclusion within a larger group; aninferior specimen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
- verb look for and gather
- verb remove something that has been rejected
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In your comments, a number of you were quick to point out that the wolf cull is not about sport or fair chase, but rather about wildlife management — an entirely different thing.
Feinstein Right: Aerial Wolf Management is NOT Fair Chase 2009
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A severe cull is required at these ranks for fiscal purposes alone.
Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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The cull is something that only comes every couple of years, and that's generally when all available space has finally run out and my wife refuses to let my dragon's hoard of books spill into another room.
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Finally, on the to do list is to again cull through the basement and through out/give to goodwill anything we are no longer using.
Reducing Recycling kittenpie 2006
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The incidents that I have been able to cull from the internet are as follows:
How Blair is killing our soldiers Richard 2006
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But the Big Kahuna of those who really need to cull is my best friend.
Archive 2004-11-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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But the Big Kahuna of those who really need to cull is my best friend.
the annual culling Dean Francis Alfar 2004
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With many, there was much reading of Testaments, humming over of favorite hymns, and looking at such books as I could cull from a miscellaneous library.
Hospital Sketches 1863
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In order to get a return on our investment, Treasury must follow a plan I called cull and capitalize.
BloggingStocks 2008
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In order to get a return on our investment, Treasury must follow a plan I called cull and capitalize.
BloggingStocks 2008
brtom commented on the word cull
"Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the heights, as he said, in my honour."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
February 6, 2007
yarb commented on the word cull
Citation (sense of fool, dupe) on nubbing cheat.
December 23, 2011