Cull

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  • transitive verb. To pick out from others; select.
  • transitive verb. To gather; collect.
  • transitive verb. To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example).
  • noun. Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality.
  • 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A fool; a dupe.
  • noun. A local English (Gloucestershire) name for the fish miller's-thumb.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect.
  • noun. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See cully.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
  • verb. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • verb. To gather, collect.
  • verb. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
  • verb. To kill (animals etc).
  • verb. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
  • noun. A selection.
  • noun. An organised killing of selected animals.
  • noun. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
  • verb. look for and gather
  • verb. remove something that has been rejected
  • Word Usage
    "A severe cull is required at these ranks for fiscal purposes alone."
    Form
    culled  culling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hull  Mull  Shull  crull  cul  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    cully  
    verb-form
    culled  culling  culls