sculls

LAKE WHEELER -- On a chilly, sun-splashed spring afternoon, young rowers hefted spindly-looking boats called sculls into this old city reservoir and, with power and grace, oared their way across the wind-rippled water, gliding past the occasional bass boat or canoe.

NewsObserver.com - Home 2009

LAKE WHEELER -- On a chilly, sun-splashed spring afternoon, young rowers hefted spindly-looking boats called sculls into this old city reservoir and, with power and grace, oared their way across the wind-rippled water, gliding past the occasional bass boat or canoe.

NewsObserver.com - Home 2009

There was a sort of resting on aristocratic oars or "sculls," that were not to be too vulgarly handled.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

Beyond the cinder-block building were racks of sculls—those long, thin boats for rowing races—and a pier with floating docks attached.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

Beyond the cinder-block building were racks of sculls—those long, thin boats for rowing races—and a pier with floating docks attached.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

It is a remarkable record, made all the more fascinating by the indefinables of the double sculls, where success is born out of technical refinement and also an intangible athletic bond, an ability to row and react with double‑skulled synchronicity.

Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test 2011

Watkins and Grainger are seriously good: described by one journalist as "the Usain Bolts" of the women's double sculls, they are still unbeaten more than a year into their partnership.

Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test 2011

Visit www.bt.com/london2012Zac PurchaseGreat Britain Born 2 May 1986Rowing Lightweight double scullsZac and his sculls partner Mark Hunter won Olympic gold in Beijing and are favourites to win again this year.

Introducing the Guardian's Olympic Diarists 2012

Single sculls is where the real individual glory lies, the blue-riband event.

Torching the myth of Sir Steve Redgrave's Olympic supremacy | Barney Ronay 2011

Other bloggers, such as Mojon and Azhder, reacted with lascivious humor, inviting the media to republish their posts about a discovery of a sexy photo of Alexander's seventh grade math teacher taken with his iPhone Ancient [MKD], and finding of the two sculls of King Marko [MKD].

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