Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long oar used at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
- noun One of a pair of light oars designed for use by a single rower.
- noun A small light racing boat for one, two, or four rowers, each using a pair of sculls.
- intransitive verb To propel (a boat) with a scull or a pair of sculls.
- intransitive verb To use a scull or a pair of sculls to propel a boat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
skull . - noun A short, light, spoon-bladed oar, the loom of which is comparatively short, so that one person can row open-handed with a pair of them, one on each side.
- noun An oar used to propel a boat by working it from side to side over the stern, the blade, which is always kept in the water, being turned diagonally at each stroke. See cut in preceding column.
- noun A small boat for passengers; a skiff; a wherry.
- To propel with one oar worked at the stern: as, to
scull a boat. - To propel with sculls.
- To work an oar against the water, at the stern of a boat, in such a way as to propel the boat. See
sculling . - To be sculled, or capable of being propelled by a scull or sculls: as, the boat sculls well.
- noun An obsolete form of
school . - noun See
skull . - In skating, to move forward or back without lifting the blades from the ice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.), obsolete The skull.
- noun A shoal of fish.
- intransitive verb To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
- transitive verb (Naut.) 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.
- noun A boat; a cockboat. See
sculler . - noun One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
- noun A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The common skua gull.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A single
oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward. - noun One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
- noun A small rowing boat, for one person.
- noun A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
- verb To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
- verb To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
- noun Obsolete form of
skull . - noun A
skull cap . A smallbowl -shapedhelmet , withoutvisor orbever . - verb Australia, New Zealand, slang To
drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb propel with sculls
- noun a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward
- noun a racing shell that is propelled by sculls
- noun each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Rowing in a racing shell or "scull" resembles skating on a pond.
Jonathan Littman: How To Recharge Your Business Batteries 2009
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Shew's capsized scull was found near Fountainhead Regional Park, police said.
Search continues for missing boater Maria Glod 2010
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Kevin Wilkinson's simple metal dinghy, propelled by a single scull from a rowlock at the stern, maintains one of the oldest crossings of the Mersey – now transferred to the canal because the nearby river itself is bridged.
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Of course one guy got turned around and was spotted going the wrong way in his singles scull.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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Shew's capsized scull was found near Fountainhead Regional Park, police said.
Body recovered in Occoquan Reservoir Maria Glod 2010
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Time and again Mr. Casey introduces interesting people—the fellow who rowed so hard with him in the two-man master's scull that he ripped the tendon off his hip bone in mid-race; the young coed who accompanied him on a 50-kilometer, midnight hike to celebrate his 50th birthday; the fellow named Oscar who proved a rock when the going got tough in Outward Bound.
Extracurricular Activities Angus Phillips 2011
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Officer Bud Walker said her capsized scull was found about 5: 30 p.m. near Fountainhead Regional Park.
Fairfax County woman missing, last seen rowing boat in Occoquan Reservoir Martin Weil 2010
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Shew's capsized scull was found near Fountainhead Regional Park, police said.
Body recovered in Occoquan Reservoir Maria Glod 2010
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The woman's scull was found capsized about 5: 30 p.m., and a search for her in and around the reservoir continued for a second day Sunday, county police said ..
Fairfax County woman missing, last seen rowing boat in Occoquan Reservoir Martin Weil 2010
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Shew's capsized scull was found near Fountainhead Regional Park, police said.
Body found in Occoquan Reservoir Washington Post editors 2010
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