Cull

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pick out from others; select.
  • v. To gather; collect.
  • v. To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example).
  • n. Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • v. To gather, collect.
  • v. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
  • v. To kill (animals etc).
  • v. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  • n. A selection.
  • n. An organised killing of selected animals.
  • n. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
  • n. A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect.
  • n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See cully.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To gather; pick; collect.
  • To pick out; select or separate one or more of from others: often with out.
  • To inspect and measure, as timber.
  • n. Something picked or culled out; specifically, an object selected from among a collection or aggregate, and placed on one side, or rejected, because of inferior quality: usually in the plural: as
  • A Middle English form of kill.
  • A variant of coll.
  • n. A fool; a dupe.
  • n. A local English (Gloucestershire) name for the fish miller's-thumb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
  • v. look for and gather
  • v. remove something that has been rejected
  • Verb Form
    culled    culling    culls   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    cully   
    Form
    culled    culling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cully    dupe    chooser   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hull    Mull    Shull    crull    cul    dull    gul    gull    hull    kuhl