different between sculler vs scull

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

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)

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.

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)

1. 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.

2. 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)

1. Obsolete form of skull.
2. 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.

Verb

scull (third-person singular simple present sculls, present participle sculling, simple past and past participle sculled)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• chug

Translations

Etymology 3

See school.

Noun

scull (plural sculls)

1. (obsolete) A shoal of fish.

Etymology 4

See skua

Noun

scull (plural sculls)

1. The skua gull.

References

Anagrams

• Culls, culls