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单词 sculler
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scullern.

Brit. /ˈskʌlə/, U.S. /ˈskələr/
Forms: Also 1500s scullar, skoller, skolloer, 1600s skullar, 1600s–1700s skuller.
Etymology: < scull v. + -er suffix1.
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.
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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
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 268/2 Scullar, batellier.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1355/2 He went ouer vnto Westminster bridge with a sculler, where he entered into a whirry that went to London.
1660 S. Pepys Diary 2 Nov. (1970) I. 281 I was told the Queene was a-coming, so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxv. 294 Ply for employment, like scullers at Hungerford-stairs.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Sculler, one that rows a cockboat.
1875 W. B. Woodgate Oars & Sculls (U.K. ed.) 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.
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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
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Diiiv He went to the water syde and toke a Skoller [1573 skolloer] and was sette ouer the Water into Sainct Georges feldes.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 220/2 Linter, a wherry or sculler.
a1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice of Faithful (1648) 211 A man cannot row upon the maine ocean in a paire of scullers.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 Her Soul already was consign'd to Fate, And shiv'ring in the leaky Sculler sate. View more context for this quotation
1760 Brit. Chron. 23 Jan. 79 On Sunday evening a skuller, with twelve people in it, struck on a hawser..and overset.
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations III. xv. 238 Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges.
1902 Working Men's College Jrnl. 7 366 Our skipper told us our boat drew too much water..and persuaded us to hire a double-sculler.
3. A sculling oar. Obsolete. rare.
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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
1766 Maldon (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.

Compounds

sculler-boat n. a sculling-boat.
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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
1663 S. Pepys Diary 1 May (1971) IV. 120 Going thither..I met a boy in a Sculler-boat.
sculler-man n. Obsolete one who plies a sculling-boat for hire.
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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
1816 Ann. Reg. 1815 Chron. 109/2 The other captain and the scullerman..were saved.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 584 With us it [sc. Nigrescent leprosy] is chiefly found among soldiers, sailors, sculler-men, stage-coachmen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scullerv.

Etymology: < sculler n.
Obsolete. rare.
= scull v. 3.
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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
1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Introd. sig. A2 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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