What does scull mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scullnoun

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

  2. scullnoun

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

  3. scullverb

    a racing shell that is propelled by sculls

  4. scullverb

    propel with sculls

    "scull the boat"

Wiktionary

  1. scullnoun

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

  2. scullverb

    to drink the entire contents of something without pausing. Derived from Scandinavian "sku00E5l".

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Scullnoun

    Etymology: It is derived by Stephen Skinner from shell, in some provinces called shull; as testa and teste, or téte, signify the head. Mr. Edward Lye observes more satisfactorily, that skola is in Islandick the skull of an animal.

    Fractures of the scull are at all times very dangerous, as the brain becomes affected from the pressure. Samuel Sharp.

    Like caitiff vile, that for misdeed
    Rides with his face to rump of steed;
    Or rowing scull, he’s fain to love,
    Look one way and another move. Hudibras.

    Each bay
    With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals
    Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales
    Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft
    Bank the mid sea. John Milton.

Wikipedia

  1. Scull

    Sculling is the use of oars to propel a boat by moving them through the water on both sides of the craft, or moving one oar over the stern. A long, narrow boat with sliding seats, rigged with two oars per rower may be referred to as a scull, its oars may be referred to as sculls and a person rowing it referred to as sculler.Sculling is distinguished from sweep rowing, whereby each boat crew member employs an oar, complemented by another crew member on the opposite side with an oar, usually with each pulling it with two hands and from stern sculling, which uses an oar to propel a vessel with side-to-side movements from the stern.

ChatGPT

  1. scull

    A scull can either refer to an oar used in sculling (type of rowing) or the act of propelling a boat using such an oar. It can also refer to a small, narrow boat which is propelled with two oars.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scullnoun

    the skull

  2. Scullnoun

    a shoal of fish

  3. Scullnoun

    a boat; a cockboat. See Sculler

  4. Scullnoun

    one of a pair of short oars worked by one person

  5. Scullnoun

    a single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat

  6. Scullnoun

    the common skua gull

  7. Scullverb

    to impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side

  8. Scullverb

    to impel a boat with a scull or sculls

  9. Etymology: [See 1st School.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scull

    skul, n. a short, light, spoon-bladed oar: a small boat: a cock-boat.—v.t. to propel a boat with a pair of sculls or light oars by one man—in fresh water: to drive a boat onward with one oar, worked like a screw over the stern.—ns. Scull′er, one who sculls: a small boat rowed by two sculls pulled by one man; Scull′ing. [Scand.; Ice. scál, a hollow, Sw. skålig, concave.]

  2. Scull

    skul, n. (Milt.) a shoal of fish. [Shoal.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. scull

    A short oar of such length that a pair of them, one on each side, are conveniently managed by a single rower sitting in the middle of the boat. Also, a light metal-helmet worn in our early fleet.--To scull. To row a boat with a pair of sculls. Also, to propel a boat by a particular method of managing a single oar over the boat's stern, and reversing the blade each time. It is in fact the half-stroke of the screw rapidly reversed, and closely resembles the propelling power of the horizontal tail of the whale.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SCULL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Scull is ranked #14930 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Scull surname appeared 1,983 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Scull.

    87.7% or 1,740 total occurrences were White.
    6.6% or 132 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.2% or 64 total occurrences were Black.
    1.6% or 33 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scull in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scull in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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