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Sculler

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scull  (skl)
n.
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 short-handled oars used 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.
To use a scull or a pair of sculls to propel a boat.
[Middle English sculle.]
sculler n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.sculler - someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward)
boat - a small vessel for travel on water
oarsman, rower - someone who rows a boat
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It was an amateur-sculler, well up to his work though taking it easily, in so light a boat that the Rogue remarked: 'A little less on you, and you'd a'most ha' been a Wagerbut'; then went to work at his windlass handles and sluices, to let the sculler in.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
" she would exclaim, when some unfortunate sculler would get in her way; "why don't he look where he's going?
Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide; the navigation of the river between bridges, in an open boat, was a much easier and commoner matter in those days than it is in these; and we went ahead among many skiffs and wherries, briskly.
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