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scull
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sk?l, IPA(key): /sk?l/
- Homophone: skull
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English sculle (“a type of oar”), of uncertain origin, possibly from North Germanic, from Old Norse skola (“to rinse, wash”).
Noun
scull (plural sculls)
- A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
- One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
- A small rowing boat, for one person.
- A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
Derived terms
- (racing boat): double scull, quad scull, single scull
Translations
Verb
scull (third-person singular simple present sculls, present participle sculling, simple past and past participle sculled)
- To row a boat using a scull or sculls.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- 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.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice.
Derived terms
- sculler
Translations
Etymology 2
See skull. The verb sense may derive from Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål.
Noun
scull (plural sculls)
- Obsolete form of skull.
- A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11.
- 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.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11.
Verb
scull (third-person singular simple present sculls, present participle sculling, simple past and past participle sculled)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
- 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.
- 2005, Stefan Laszczuk, The Goddamn Bus of Happiness, page 75,
- That way you get your opponent so gassed up from sculling beer that all he can think about is trying to burp without spewing.
- 2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day, 14th Edition, page 133,
- 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.
- 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 136,
- 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.
- 2005, Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia, The Sunday Times, Cadogan Guides, UK, page 59,
Synonyms
- chug
Translations
Etymology 3
See school.
Noun
scull (plural sculls)
- (obsolete) A shoal of fish.
Etymology 4
See skua
Noun
scull (plural sculls)
- The skua gull.
References
Anagrams
- Culls, culls
scull From the web:
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drinka
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *drinkan?. Compare Old English drincan, Old Saxon drinkan, Old High German trinkan, Old Norse drekka.
Verb
drinka
- to drink
Inflection
Descendants
- North Frisian:
- Föhr: drank
- Hallig: drinke
- Mooring: drainke
- Saterland Frisian: drinke
- West Frisian: drinke
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