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▪ I. sculler, n.|ˈskʌlə(r)|
Also 6 scullar, skoller, -oer, 7 skullar, 7–8 skuller.
[f. scull v. + -er1.]
1. One who propels a boat by means of a scull or a pair of sculls; one skilled in the management of a sculling-boat.
1530Palsgr. 268/2 Scullar, batellier. 1563Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1081/2 He went ouer unto Westminster bridge with a Sculler, where he entred into a Whirry that went to London. 1660Pepys Diary 2 Nov., I was told the Queen was a-coming; so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. lxx, Ply for employment like scullers at Hungerford stairs. 1755Johnson, Sculler, one that rows a cockboat. 1875W. B. Woodgate Oars & Sculls xv. 116 If anything, a sculler can reach his hands an inch or two farther forward than the oarsman.
2. A boat propelled by sculling; a sculling-boat; also, rarely † a pair of scullers.
double-sculler, a sculling-boat to seat two scullers.
1567Harman Caveat xi. (1869) 54 He went to the water syde and toke a Skoller [ed. 1573 skolloer], and was sette ouer the Water into Saincte Georges feldes. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 220/2 Linter, a wherry or sculler. a1640W. Fenner Sacrif. Faithfull (1648) 211 A man cannot row upon the maine ocean in a paire of Scullers. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 735 Her Soul already was consign'd to Fate, And shiv'ring in the leaky Sculler sate. 1760Brit. Chron. 23 Jan. 79 On Sunday evening a skuller, with twelve people in it, struck on a hawser..and overset. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. liv, Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges. 1902Working Men's Coll. Jrnl. VII. 366 Our skipper told us our boat drew too much water..and persuaded us to hire a double-sculler.
†3. A sculling oar. Obs. rare—1.
1766Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds (Bundle 79. no. 14), [Gideon Whetstone, mariner] saw him sink and try'd with his sculler to feel for him but could not reach him.
†4. attrib. and Comb., as sculler-boat, a sculling-boat; sculler-man, one who plies a sculling-boat for hire. Obs.
1663Pepys Diary 1 May, Going thither..I met a boy in a sculler-boat. 1815Ann. Reg., Chron. 109 The other captain and the scullerman were saved. 1822–29Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) V. 598 With us it [Nigrescent leprosy] is chiefly found among soldiers, sailors, sculler-men, stage-coachmen [etc.].
▪ II. † ˈsculler, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. sculler n.]
= scull v. 3.
1681Hickeringill Black Non-Conf. Introd., Wks. 1716 II. 4 What they paid for being Sculler'd back again, is not in the Book of Rates..for Charon's Boat is always empty of Passengers back again. |