SCULL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scull mean? 

• SCULL (noun)
  The noun SCULL has 3 senses:

1. a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward

2. each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman

3. a racing shell that is propelled by sculls

  Familiarity information: SCULL used as a noun is uncommon.

• SCULL (verb)
  The verb SCULL has 1 sense:

1. propel with sculls

  Familiarity information: SCULL used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCULL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scull" is a kind of...):

oar (an implement used to propel or steer a boat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scull" is a kind of...):

oar (an implement used to propel or steer a boat)

Derivation:

scull (propel with sculls)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A racing shell that is propelled by sculls

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("scull" is a kind of...):

racing shell; shell (a very light narrow racing boat)

• SCULL (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scull    ... he / she / it sculls   
Past simple: sculled   
Past participle: sculled   
-ing form: sculling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Propel with sculls

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

scull the boat

Hypernyms (to "scull" is one way to...):

row (propel with oars)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

scull (each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman)

sculler (someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward))

sculling (rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell)

 Context examples 

I banged it a good while with one of my sculls, and at last forced it to leap out of the boat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

So we proceeded without pausing to take breath, till the whole cargo was bestowed, when the two servants took up their position in the block house, and I, with all my power, sculled back to the HISPANIOLA.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When it was finished, the queen was so delighted, that she ran with it in her lap to the king, who ordered it to be put into a cistern full of water, with me in it, by way of trial, where I could not manage my two sculls, or little oars, for want of room.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)