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: asA 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.