scull — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.

2. One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.

3. A small rowing boat, for one person.

4. A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.

Verb

1. To row a boat using a scull or sculls.

   Examples

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   The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.

2. To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.

Noun

1. A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.

   Examples

   The scull is a head piece, without visor or bever, resembling a bowl or bason, such as was worn by our cavalry, within twenty or thirty years.

Verb

1. To drink the entire contents of a drinking vessel without pausing.

   Usage

   • Australia
   • New-Zealand
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   chugdown

   Examples

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   2005, Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia, The Sunday Times, Cadogan Guides, UK, page 59, In 1954, Bob Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds.

   That way you get your opponent so gassed up from sculling beer that all he can think about is trying to burp without spewing.

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   For a livelier scene, head here on Friday or Saturday night, when mass beer-sculling (chugging) and yodeling are accompanied by a brass band and costumed waitresses ferrying foaming beer steins about the atmospheric, cellarlike space.

   After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.

   I sipped it. It was thick and sweet and yuck. It went somewhere and did something I couldn't pinpoint. I sculled the rest.

Noun

1. A shoal of fish.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   Of fish that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave , in sculls

Noun

1. The skua gull.

Noun

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

   Broader terms

   oar

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

   Broader terms

   oar

3. a racing shell that is propelled by sculls

   Broader terms

   shellracing shell

Verb

1. propel with sculls

   Broader terms

   row

   Examples

   scull the boat