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** English
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. One who scull s; an athlete who participates in sculling race s.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1580 | author=w:John Stow | title=The Chronicles of England from [Brutus of Troy] vnto this Present Yeare of Christ | location=London | publisher=Ralphe Newberie | chapter=Queene Mary | page=1082 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13043.0001.001
|passage=[...] each man discharged their péece, and killed the sayd waterman,
which forthwith falling downe dead, the SCULLER with much payne rowed through
the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man, and the dead man in
his boate [...]}}
1. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1859 | author=w:Frederic Farrar | title=Julian Home | location=Philadelphia | publisher=Lippincott | year_published=1860 | chapter=9 | page=108 | url=https://archive.org/details/julianhomeatale00farrgoog
|passage=The first and second guns had been fired, and the SCULLERS in their
boats, each some ten yards apart from the other, are anxiously waiting the
firing of the third, which is the signal for starting.}}
1. A boat row ed by one person with two scull s, or short oar s.
2. * 1675 , [John Dryden] , _[The Mistaken Husband]_ , London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act III, p. [nbsp] 33, <sup> see http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36653.0001.001 </sup>
3. *: Alas! the Story's short: Your Father’s dead. He would needs take water in a SCULLER ; And to save part of the Charges, going to row, overturned the Boat upon a Buoy [...]
4. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1718 | author=w:Daniel Defoe | title=The Family Instructor | location=London | publisher=Eman. Matthews, The Fifth Dialogue | page=356 | url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004844749.0001.002
|passage=The Boats being clear, the Captain’s Boat, which was Oars, and
consequently had two Watermen, went before the Maid’s Boat, which was but a
SCULLER; and as he passed by, looking at the Wench, he thought he knew her
Face, but did not call to mind who she was [...]}}
1. * [III]
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1927 | author=w:Warwick Deeping | title= [Kitty (novel)] | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.260723 | chapter=30 | page=336 | publisher=Knopf | year_published=1928 | location=New York
|passage=They watched that boat. It was a double SCULLER, with two female
figures in the stern; it came slothfully up past the ferry; the sculling was
not very good [...]}}
**** Synonyms
- [athlete] [en]
- [boat] [en]
**** Translations
[one who sculls]
- German: [de]
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*** Anagrams
- [en]