different between sculler vs culler

English

Etymology

scull +? -er

Noun

sculler (plural scullers)

1. One who sculls; an athlete who participates in sculling races.
   • 1580, John Stow, The Chronicles of England from Brute vnto this Present Yeare of Christ, London: Ralphe Newberie, “Queene Mary,” p. 1082,^[1]

     […] each man discharged their péece, and killed the sayd waterman, which forthwith falling downe dead, the Sculler with much payne rowed through the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man, and the dead man in his boate […]

   • 1859, Frederic Farrar, Julian Home, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1860, Chapter 9, p. 108,^[2]

     The first and second guns had been fired, and the scullers in their boats, each some ten yards apart from the other, are anxiously waiting the firing of the third, which is the signal for starting.

2. A boat rowed by one person with two sculls, or short oars.
   • 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act III, p. 33,^[3]

     Alas! the Story's short: Your Father’s dead. He would needs take water in a Sculler; And to save part of the Charges, going to row, overturned the Boat upon a Buoy […]

   • 1718, Daniel Defoe, The Family Instructor, London: Eman. Matthews, The Fifth Dialogue, p. 356,^[4]

     The Boats being clear, the Captain’s Boat, which was Oars, and consequently had two Watermen, went before the Maid’s Boat, which was but a Sculler; and as he passed by, looking at the Wench, he thought he knew her Face, but did not call to mind who she was […]

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter 54,^[5]

     At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen’s boats were far more numerous. […] Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide […]

   • 1927, Warwick Deeping, Kitty, New York: Knopf, 1928, Chapter 30, p. 336,^[6]

     They watched that boat. It was a double sculler, with two female figures in the stern; it came slothfully up past the ferry; the sculling was not very good […]

Synonyms

• (athlete): rower
• (boat): scull

Anagrams

• Cullers, cruells, cullers

English

Etymology

cull +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?(r)

Homophones: color, colour

Noun

culler (plural cullers)

1. One who picks or chooses.
   1. An inspector who selects wares suitable for market.
   2. One who kills animals to keep their numbers down.
      • 2014, David L. Katz, James F. Jekel, Jekel's Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health

        Outside the usual occupational groups at risk for such diseases (farmers, veterinarians, animal handlers, cullers), anyone with regular animal contact, such as pet owners and those who keep livestock species near their home, may be at risk.

Anagrams

• cruell

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cullar, colhar, from Latin coclear, cocle?ris (“spoon”). The Galician-Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Portuguese colher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku????/

Noun

culler f (plural culleres)

1. spoon
   • 1375, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica:

     It. huum marquo de prata en culleres que ten Steuayna.

     Item: a silver mark in spoons, in the possession of Stephanie [from an inventory]

2. ladle
   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en Romance:

     Por o rabo da culler, sube o gato a a ola.

     By the handle of the ladle, the cat climbs to the pot

3. tadpole (toad or frog larva)

References

• “cullar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cullar” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “culler” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “culler” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “culler” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.