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Scull   Listen
noun
Scull  n.  
1.
(Naut.)
(a)
A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
(b)
One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
(c)
A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
2.
(Zool.) The common skua gull. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Scull" Quotes from Famous Books



... cutters, in the chops of the Channel, and which always had a fog handy to run into, but out of which no man could truly say he ever saw her come again! This skiff may have plied between the land and that Guernseyman, for any thing I know to the contrary; but it is not a boat I wish to pull a scull in." ...
— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper
... from the mayor's house, where he had passed a peaceful night, and risen to write a letter on behalf of certain tenants of his in London, that justice might be done them when he died? There he goes in close custody, dressed in his bishop's gown and tippet, with a velvet scull cap on his head. Behind him comes Latimer, an old, old man in threadbare gown and leathern girdle, keeping up as well as he can with the rest. They pass along what is now called Cornmarket Street, and under the Bocardo gateway, where is St. Michael's ...
— Oxford • Frederick Douglas How
... flowing. My father's boat had been dragged ashore and lay bottom upwards under a cliff about three hundred yards above the ford. If we could reach and right it without being discovered, either one of us was clever enough, with an oar over the stern, to scull noiselessly across to the entrance of a creek where the current would take us up towards Boconnoc between banks held on either side by Royalists; to whom, if they surprised us, we could ...
— The Laird's Luck • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... commanded; "I'll have to scull," and moving cautiously to the stern of the boat he put his remaining oar in the notch cut for it and began to move it ...
— A Little Maid of Province Town • Alice Turner Curtis
... several hours later he found that it was midnight. His struggle with wind and sea had now become unequal. He found it impractical to remain longer in the stern attempting to scull. So very cautiously he set ...
— The Harbor of Doubt • Frank Williams


Words linked to "Scull" :   athletics, sculler, racing shell, oar, shell


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