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sculling, vbl. n.|ˈskʌlɪŋ|
[f. scull v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia vi. 225 Being with skulling and bayling the water tired. 1820Scoresby Arctic Reg. I. 466 As a boat is forced along, with a single oar, by the operation of skulling. 1875W. B. Woodgate Oars & Sculls xv. 118 Recovery is a matter of greater ease in sculling than in rowing. Ibid., Double sculling is faster than pair-oar rowing. 1938D. Cummings Figure Skating as Hobby iii. 19 You can try sculling. Feet together, put your weight on the inside of both your skates..bend your knees, push down, move your feet apart, straighten slightly and bring them together again. 1973R. S. Ogilvie Basic Ice Skating Skills ii. 49 This progression across the ice by moving both feet in and out is known as sculling. Sculling..can be done forward as well as backward. Ibid. 175 Sculling,..a method of two-footed progression forward or backward by an in-and-out movement of the feet.
b. attrib. and Comb., as sculling-boat, sculling outrigger, sculling race; sculling boy, one who sculls a wherry for hire; sculling-crutch (see quot.); sculling eight, four, a sculling-boat propelled by eight or four pairs of sculls respectively; sculling float, a flat-bottomed sculling-boat; sculling-hole, a hole for a sculling oar; sculling motion, stroke, that resembling the motion or stroke of a sculling oar; sculling-notch, score = sculling-hole; sculling oar, an oar used in sculling over the stern of a boat.
1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports i. i. ix. 76/2 It has a deck like the outrigger *skulling-boats used on the Thames.
1673R. Head Canting Acad. 125 The *Skulling-boy [? a public house bearing this sign] lying just over the Gate.
1898Encycl. Sport II. 168/2 (Punt shooting) *Sculling-crutch, the spur on the starboard side of the punt in which the fowler ‘sculls’ with his oar. 1885*Sculling eight [see sculling four].
1874J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl xxii. 230 They may also be approached..in the *sculling-float.
1885Furnivall in N. & Q. Ser. vi. XI. 324/1 The first ‘*sculling four’..was put on the Thames, at my suggestion..in 1883; and..the first ‘*sculling eight’ was brought out..in January, 1885. 1892― Hoccleve's Minor P. Forew. 47 note, How different it was yesterday, in our narrow sculling-four!
1874J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl iv. 91 The *sculling-hole..is placed six inches to larboard of centre of stern.
1933Bamfield & Palmer Art of Sailing ix. 76 Have a *sculling notch cut in the stern, shod with a strip of brass. 1973Sculling-notch [see scull n.1 1 a].
1833J. Rennie Alph. Angling 51 It [the tail of fish] acts very much like the *sculling oar of a boat.
1946F. B. Cooke Cruising Hints (ed. 6) xxvii. 244 Every yacht's dinghy should have a *sculling score in the transom. 1960― Yachting with Economy xxi. 146 When leaving the yacht to get the kedge, place the warp in the sculling score. |