CULL

cull, reject

(noun) the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

pick, pluck, cull

(verb) look for and gather; “pick mushrooms”; “pick flowers”

cull

(verb) remove something that has been rejected; “cull the sick members of the herd”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

cull (third-person singular simple present culls, present participle culling, simple past and past participle culled)

To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).

To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

(nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).

To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.

Noun

cull (plural culls)

A selection.

An organised killing of selected animals.

(farming, agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.

(seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.

A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.

Etymology 2

Noun

cull (plural culls)

(slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

Synonyms

• See also dupe

Proper noun

Cull (plural Culls)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cull is the 14093^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2133 individuals. Cull is most common among White (89.59%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

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Cull (kl), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Culled (kld); p. pr.& Culling.] Etym: [OE., OF. cuillir, coillir, F.cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See Coil, v. t., and cf. Collect.]

Definition: To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cuil flowers. From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. Dryden. Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. Tennyson.

Cull, n.

Definition: A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Gully.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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