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scull

either of a pair of small oars used by a single rower; a small boat propelled by a scull or a pair of sculls

Not to be confused with:

skull – the skeleton of the head

scull

(skŭl)

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

2. One of a pair of light oars designed for use by a single rower.

3. A small light racing boat for one, two, or four rowers, each using a pair of sculls.

v. sculled, scull·ing, sculls

v.tr.

To propel (a boat) with a scull or a pair of sculls.

v.intr.

1. To use a scull or a pair of sculls to propel a boat.

2. To generate propulsion, as in swimming, with a motion resembling that of a single scull oar.

[Middle English sculle.]

scull′er n.

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scull

(skʌl)

1. (Nautical Terms) a single oar moved from side to side over the stern of a boat to propel it

2. (Rowing) one of a pair of short-handled oars, both of which are pulled by one oarsman, esp in a racing shell

3. (Rowing) a racing shell propelled by an oarsman or oarsmen pulling two oars

4. (Rowing) (plural) a race between racing shells, each propelled by one, two, or four oarsmen pulling two oars

5. (Rowing) an act, instance, period, or distance of sculling

(Nautical Terms) to propel (a boat) with a scull

[C14: of unknown origin]

ˈsculler n

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scull

(skʌl)

n.

1. an oar mounted on a fulcrum at the stern of a small boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.

2. either of a pair of oars rowed by one rower.

3. a boat propelled by an oar or oars.

4. a light, narrow racing boat for one, two, or sometimes four rowers, each equipped with a pair of oars.

v.t.

5. to propel or convey by means of a scull or sculls.

v.i.

6. to scull a boat.

[1475–85; orig. uncertain]

scull′er, n.

scull

Past participle: sculled
Gerund: sculling

Imperative
scull
scull

Present
I scull
you scull
he/she/it sculls
we scull
you scull
they scull

Preterite
I sculled
you sculled
he/she/it sculled
we sculled
you sculled
they sculled

Present Continuous
I am sculling
you are sculling
he/she/it is sculling
we are sculling
you are sculling
they are sculling

Present Perfect
I have sculled
you have sculled
he/she/it has sculled
we have sculled
you have sculled
they have sculled

Past Continuous
I was sculling
you were sculling
he/she/it was sculling
we were sculling
you were sculling
they were sculling

Past Perfect
I had sculled
you had sculled
he/she/it had sculled
we had sculled
you had sculled
they had sculled

Future
I will scull
you will scull
he/she/it will scull
we will scull
you will scull
they will scull

Future Perfect
I will have sculled
you will have sculled
he/she/it will have sculled
we will have sculled
you will have sculled
they will have sculled

Future Continuous
I will be sculling
you will be sculling
he/she/it will be sculling
we will be sculling
you will be sculling
they will be sculling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been sculling
you have been sculling
he/she/it has been sculling
we have been sculling
you have been sculling
they have been sculling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been sculling
you will have been sculling
he/she/it will have been sculling
we will have been sculling
you will have been sculling
they will have been sculling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been sculling
you had been sculling
he/she/it had been sculling
we had been sculling
you had been sculling
they had been sculling

Conditional
I would scull
you would scull
he/she/it would scull
we would scull
you would scull
they would scull

Past Conditional
I would have sculled
you would have sculled
he/she/it would have sculled
we would have sculled
you would have sculled
they would have sculled

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Noun	1.	scull - a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward oar - an implement used to propel or steer a boat
	2.	scull - each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman oar - an implement used to propel or steer a boat
	3.	scull - a racing shell that is propelled by sculls racing shell, shell - a very light narrow racing boat
Verb	1.	scull - propel with sculls; "scull the boat" athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition boat - a small vessel for travel on water row - propel with oars; "row the boat across the lake"

Translations

أحَد مِجْذافي الزَّوْرَقيُحَرِّك الزَّوْرَق بالمِجْذافَيْن

vesloveslovat

rosculleråre

Heckriemen wriggen

aviron ramer

egypárevezõsrövid szárú evező

rikka, tifróatifróîrarár

remare remo

vairinis irklas

airētīss airis

liten åre ro vrikkeåre

kısa kürek kürek çekmek

用桨划船短桨

scull

[skʌl]

A. N → espadilla f

B. VT → remar (con espadilla)

C. VI → remar (con espadilla)

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scull

[ˈskʌl]

(= oar) → aviron m

(ROWING) (= boat) (single) → skiff m; (double) → double scull m, deux m de couple

vt [+ boat] → faire avancer à la rame

vi (= row) → ramer; (in competition) → courir en skiff, concourir en skiff
He has sculled twice for Italy in the Olympic Games → Il a couru deux fois en skiff pour l'Italie aux Jeux olympiques.

scull

n (= oar) → Skull nt; (= boat) → Skullboot nt

vt → rudern

vi → rudern, skullen (spec)

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scull

[skʌl]

1. n → bratto

2. vi & vt → vogare (a bratto)

scull

(skal) noun

a short, light oar.

verb

to move a boat with a pair of these or with an oar worked at the stern of the boat.

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Lizzie took her right hand from the scull it held, and touched her lips with it, and for a moment held it out lovingly towards him: then, without speaking, she resumed her rowing, as another boat of similar appearance, though in rather better trim, came out from a dark place and dropped softly alongside.

Scull it is, pardner--don't fret yourself--I didn't touch him.' This was in answer to a quick impatient movement on the part of Gaffer: the speaker at the same time unshipping his scull on that side, and laying his hand on the gunwale of Gaffer's boat and holding to it.

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He seized his scull. Even at that moment there was a terrific explosion.

In a few moments they had dragged over the side a small collapsible boat of canvas stretched across some bamboo joints, with two tiny sculls. They clambered up the bank.

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He counteracted the tendency to drowsiness and stupor which cold produces by keeping himself in constant exercise; and seeing that the vessel was advancing, and that everything depended upon himself, he set to work to scull the boat clear of the bar, and into quiet water.

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So saying he commenced to scull the canoe's nose before the wind, while I made fast the primitive sheets that held our crude sail.

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When it was finished, the queen was so delighted, that she ran with it in her lap to the king, who ordered it to be put into a cistern full of water, with me in it, by way of trial, where I could not manage my two sculls, or little oars, for want of room.

I banged it a good while with one of my sculls, and at last forced it to leap out of the boat.

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So we proceeded without pausing to take breath, till the whole cargo was bestowed, when the two servants took up their position in the block house, and I, with all my power, sculled back to the HISPANIOLA.

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For all that any man may gainsay, the ketch Arangi, trader and blackbirder in the Solomon Islands, may have signified in Jerry's mind as much the mysterious boat that traffics between the two worlds, as, at one time, the boat that Charon sculled across the Styx signified to the human mind.

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"First-rate, old boy!" said Raffles (who must needs come and see me there), lying back in the boat while I sculled and steered.

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"Right it is," we answered; and with Harris at the sculls and I at the tiller-lines, and Montmorency, unhappy and deeply suspicious, in the prow, out we shot on to the waters which, for a fortnight, were to be our home.