Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who sculls a boat.
- noun A boat rowed by one man with a pair of sculls or short oars.
- noun An officer or servant who had charge of the dishes, pots, etc., in a household, to keep them clean; a dish-washer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.
- noun One who sculls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
sculls . - noun A
boat rowed by one person with twosculls , or shortoars .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward)
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Examples
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More recently Holmes had been a coach and a competitive sculler.
Double Olympic gold medal winner Andy Holmes dies James Meikle 2010
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More recently Holmes had been a coach and a competitive sculler.
Rower Andy Holmes was 'incredibly tough' James Meikle 2010
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As a single sculler you do spend a lot of time on your own, you do have to be highly motivated.
What I do on Christmas Day when the rest of the country is having fun 2011
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He considered becoming a sculler (much as Redgrave had once desired) and even bought a house at Banyoles in Spain, where the 1992 Olympics were to be held, but without a sponsor the plan was curtailed and he was soon lost to rowing.
Andy Holmes obituary Peter Nichols 2010
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GB single sculler, world silver and bronze medallist.
What I do on Christmas Day when the rest of the country is having fun 2011
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Single sculler Jennifer Devine finished second in her prelim to advance.
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In earlier finals, German single sculler Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski ended Ekaterina Karsten-Khodotovitch's Olympic dominance, beating the two-time defending gold medalist by nearly four seconds.
USATODAY.com - USA's Abdullah, Nuzum denied doubles medal 2004
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Many people say this and that about a queen and a king, but I think a king comes more natural to us English folks; and this good gentleman goes as often down by water to Greenwich, and employs as many of the barge-men and water-men of all kinds; and maintains, in his royal grace, John Taylor, the water-poet, who keeps both a sculler and a pair of oars.
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On Saturday, July 30, Dr. Johnson and I took a sculler at the
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Thus at Gravesend a sculler requires a shilling for going less way than he would row in
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