"Scull" Definition

Definitions for the word "Scull" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The skull.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A shoal of fish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The common skua gull.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 either of a pair of small oars. 2 oar over the stern of a boat to propel it, usu. By a twisting motion. 3 (in pl.) Sculling race. v. (often absol.) Propel (a boat) with sculls. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
10. slang
or SKULL, the head, or master of a college.—_University_, but nearly obsolete; the gallery, however, in St. Mary’s (the Oxford University church), where the “Heads of Houses” sit in solemn state, is still nicknamed the “Golgotha” by the undergraduates.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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