sculln.1
/skʌl/, U.S. /skəl/ 1. A kind of oar: (a) an oar used to propel a boat by working it from side to side over the stern of the boat, reversing the blade at each turn; (b) an oar, shorter and lighter than a ‘rowing’ oar, so that a pair can be operated at once by one person, who sits midway between the sides of the boat.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > short light oar
scull1345
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > rowing apparatus > [noun] > oar > oar worked over stern
scull1345
sculler1766
sculling oar1833
yulo1878
1345–6 in N. H. Nicolas Hist. Royal Navy (1847) II. 477 [For four large and long oars called] skulles [4s. 8d.].
1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 13 ij sculles..for the bote of the said ship.
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 193 After skullys..j.
a1500 Piers of Fulham (James) in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 12 And for to rowe in a barge with a skulle Avayleth not but the flud be at full.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 268/2 Scull to rowe with, auiron.
1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 56 Suppose a Paralellipipedon-Boat or Vessel, of breadth fit for a pair of Skulls..and of length sufficient for 9 such Skulls or Oars.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxix. 287 We moved on in deep silence, with a single scull astern.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 1 The girl rowed, pulling a pair of sculls very easily.
1875 W. B. Woodgate Oars & Sculls (U.K. ed.) xv. 118 On a sliding seat the sculls, like oars, should be a trifle longer inboard.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels propelled by oars or poles > [noun] > rowing boat > sculling-boat
sculler1567
scull1611
sculler-boat1663
funny1779
sculling-boat1856
sculling float1874
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Napelette, a small skiffe, scull, or cocke-boat.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 3 Dec. (1970) II. 226 Thence by water..being carried by him in oares that the other day rowed in a scull faster then my oares to the Tower.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > rower or oarsman > sculler
sculler1530
scull1663
sculling boy1673
sculler-man1816
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 190 He loves, but dares not make the motion;..Like..rowing Scull, he's fain to love, Look one way, and another move.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 5 Where Sculls did once Row, Men walk to and fro.
4. plural. A sculling race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > types of rowing race
torpid1838
bumping race1842
row-over1866
sculls1878
May1879
Lents1886
fours1891
getting-on race1892
row-off1893
re-row1901
tub-race1903
bumper1906
bump1923
bumps race1927
head race1953
1878 Athletic World 5 Apr. 8/2 The following races have been fixed..Lowe Senior Sculls, July 22;.. Handicap Sculls, Aug. 21.
5. An act of sculling.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [noun] > rowing > spell of rowing
row1767
pull1793
scull1886
1886 M. F. Tupper My Life as Author 59 The gallop with Mr. Murrell's harriers, or the quick scull to Iffley.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl xvii. 176 To ask me to fill in a journal with the day's events is like asking a galley-slave to take a scull in a pleasure-boat after his toil is over.
Compounds
scull-hole n. = sculling-hole n. at sculling n. Compounds 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > for oar or scull
oar-holea1450
row port1758
scull-hole1843
oar-port1849
sculling-hole1874
sculling-notch1933
sculling score1946
1843 G. Little Life on Ocean 63 The crew got the bight of the rope fore and aft the boat, leading it from the stern over the scull-hole.
1973 W. Elmer Terminol. Fishing iv. 125 Many of the smallest boats are not fitted with rowlocks or tholes, but have a notch in the transom for sculling (sculling-notch or scull-hole).
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† sculln.2
Obsolete.
A scullion. Also in combination scull-boy.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > service in kitchen > [noun] > kitchen servant
squiller1303
waynpainc1330
kitchener1332
custronc1400
kitchen knave1440
scullion1483
scudler1488
swiller?a1500
dishwashera1529
lubber1538
kitchen maid1551
kitchen wencha1556
scull1566
washpot1570
kitchen stuff1582
scrape-trencher1603
kitchenist?1617
trencher-scraper1650
mediastine1658
drudge-pudding1737
marmiton1754
knife-boy1847
potwalloper1859
kitchen mechanic1861
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Giiijv Foulers, fishers, sculls, podingwrightes, The trulls of Tuscus streate.
1598 tr. G. de La Perrière Mirrour Policie D d The Romane law..ordained that honest Romane wiues should be exempt from..playing the skuls in the kitchen.
1643 J. Vicars Looking-glasse for Malignants 35 God most wisely..makes them..to be but as it were, the very drudges and scull-boyes of his Church.
1743 A. Bush in Howell St. Trials (1813) XVII. 1196 He was a little scull that used to go of errands.
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sculln.3
/skʌl/, U.S. /skəl/ A name given locally to various species of gulls.
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1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Gull—Arctic Larus Parasiticus... Provincial. Scull.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds V. 492 Lestris Richardsonii. Richardson's Skua... Scull.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 210 Common Skua (Stercorarius catarrhactes)... Scull.
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scullv.
/skʌl/, U.S. /skəl/ 1.
a. intransitive or absol. To proceed by means of a boat propelled with a scull or a pair of sculls; to use a scull or a pair of sculls in propelling a boat. Also to scull it, and with complement denoting the position of the sculler.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > [verb (intransitive)] > row > row with specific type of oars
scull1624
sweep1799
yulo1878
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 225 Being with skulling and bayling the water tired.
1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum i. iii. 134 Others have nothing to do but skull away with the Tide, when it comes in.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge ii. 29 As we sculled along in the clear creek.
1851 M. Reid Rifle Rangers ii I had steamed it down the Mississippi, and sculled it up the Orinoco.
1892 F. J. Furnivall Hoccleve's Minor Poems Forew. 47 (note) When he peeld to scull bow down-stream.
b. transferred. Of a fish: To propel itself. Of the tail: To act as a propeller.
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the world > animals > fish > [verb (intransitive)] > swim
run?1527
floata1599
scull1850
fina1861
the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [verb (intransitive)] > act as propeller (of tail)
scull1894
1850 H. T. Cheever Whale & his Captors viii. 132 He has two curious fins to scull with.
1894 Outing 24 59/1 A long greenish form with fins that wavered slowly, and a tail that sculled with just sufficient power to keep its owner in his hiding-place.
c. transitive. To make (a particular stroke) in sculling.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > propel boat by oars, paddle, or pole [verb (transitive)] > row (a boat) > make a stroke
to take an oar1600
strike1725
row1769
scull1875
1875 W. B. Woodgate Oars & Sculls (U.K. ed.) xv. 116 It is possible to scull a much longer stroke than can be rowed.
2.
a. transitive. To propel (a boat) by means of a scull or a pair of sculls. Also reflexive of a fish, etc., to propel itself as by a scull or sculls.
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the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [verb (intransitive)] > swim
rowOE
to take water1485
scull1665
society > travel > travel by water > propelling boat by oars, paddle, or pole > propel boat by oars, paddle, or pole [verb (transitive)] > row (a boat) > row with specific type of oars
scull1798
sweep1799
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 186 [Serving] for the finns and tail, for the Oars and Ruder of this little creature [sc. a water-insect], wherewith it was able..to move himself any whither, and to skull and steer himself as he pleas'd.
1773 Hist. Brit. Dominions N. Amer. ii. ii. §12. 217 He [the whale] sculls himself in the water with a large horizontal tail.
1798 S. Wilcocke in Naval Chron. (1799) 2 63 They [sc. the boats] are sculled instead of being rowed.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 3 Another boat..dropped softly alongside. ‘In luck again, Gaffer?’ said a man..who sculled her.
b. intransitive. Of a boat: To admit of being sculled (well, easily, etc.).
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1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The boat sculls well.
3. transitive. To convey (a person) by water in a sculling-boat or by sculling.
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society > travel > travel by water > transportation by water > transport by water [verb (transitive)] > in specific type of craft or by specific propulsion
rowa1470
boat1508
keel1599
barge1652
raft1667
drog1681
sculler1682
paddle1784
punt1818
scull1827
wherry1827
yawl1884
steam1891
submarine1918
gondolier1936
1827 W. E. Gladstone Diary 26 June in J. Morley Life Gladstone (1903) I. i. ii. 43 Sculled Hallam to Surly after 6.
1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 246 He went home sculling himself across the lake.
1903 J. Morley Life Gladstone I. i. ii. 40 The more sinewy Gladstone used to scull him up to the Shallows.
4. intransitive. To skate without lifting the feet from the ice.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > skate [verb (intransitive)] > manner of skating
scull1895
overskate1932
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
1938 [implied in: D. Cummings Figure Skating iii. 19 You can try sculling. Feet together, put your weight on the inside of both your skates..bend your knees, push down, move your feet apart, straighten slightly and bring them together again. (at sculling n.)].
1976 Webster's Sports Dict. 376/1 Scull or skull,..to propel oneself forward or backward by alternately moving the heels or the toes apart and together changing from an outer edge on the outward movement to an inner edge on the inward movement.
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a. to scull about, to lie about; spec. of objects left on the deck of a ship instead of being put away. colloquial.
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1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub v. 136 You went round..with a large bag. In this you placed all..articles..found ‘sculling’ about.
1938 C. L. Morgan Flashing Stream iii. 263 Don't leave it [sc. a key] sculling about.
1943 ‘C. S. Forester’ Ship 12 I want those mess-traps brought back... Don't leave them sculling about on the decks.
b. to scull around (or about), to move about aimlessly; also figurative. colloquial.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > idly or aimlessly
wantonc1550
random1561
sponge1825
slosh1854
to scull around1921
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 20 Mar. 19/7 My opposite number..has one or two questions pertaining to his own branch sculling around in his mind.
1935 M. Egan Dominant Sex i. 12 Angela. Where have you been these ages? Alec. Oh, sculling round the country on business.
1950 A. P. Herbert Independent Member lxi. 359 The queer-looking spectacled P.O., ‘sculling about’ in his No. 1's astern of the Field-Marshal.
1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze vi. 151 While these ideas were sculling around Whitehall, there arrived from Moscow..M. Molotov.
1981 ‘J. Ross’ Dark Blue & Dangerous xxiii. 137 What with Wiffen and one or two others who were there sculling about, the picture is a little confusing.
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