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单词 cull
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culln.1

Forms: Also Middle English cole.
dialect.
The fish called Bull-head or Miller's Thumb.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Scorpaeniformes (scorpion-fish) > [noun] > family Cottidae (sculpins) > member of genus Cottus (bull-head) > cottus gobio (miller's thumb)
cabochec1425
miller's thumb1440
bullheadc1450
cull1480
binhead1581
cabot1611
river bullhead1763
1480 W. Worcester Itineraries 292 Homines possunt piscare..de colys vocat. myller thombys.
1480 W. Worcester Itineraries 358 Yn Wye-water sunt..cullys.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Cull, the bull-head. Glouc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

culln.2

Brit. /kʌl/, U.S. /kəl/
Etymology: perhaps abbreviation of cully n.
slang and dialect.
A dupe, silly fellow, simpleton, fool; a man, fellow, chap.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > man > [noun]
churla800
werec900
rinkeOE
wapmanc950
heOE
wyeOE
gomeOE
ledeOE
seggeOE
shalkOE
manOE
carmanlOE
mother bairnc1225
hemea1250
mother sona1250
hind1297
buck1303
mister mana1325
piecec1325
groomc1330
man of mouldc1330
hathela1350
sire1362
malea1382
fellowa1393
guestc1394
sergeant?a1400
tailarda1400
tulka1400
harlotc1405
mother's sona1470
frekea1475
her1488
masculinea1500
gentlemana1513
horse?a1513
mutton?a1513
merchant1549
child1551
dick1553
sorrya1555
knavea1556
dandiprat1556
cove1567
rat1571
manling1573
bird1575
stone-horse1580
loona1586
shaver1592
slave1592
copemate1593
tit1594
dog1597
hima1599
prick1598
dingle-dangle1605
jade1608
dildoa1616
Roger1631
Johnny1648
boy1651
cod1653
cully1676
son of a bitch1697
cull1698
feller1699
chap1704
buff1708
son of a gun1708
buffer1749
codger1750
Mr1753
he-man1758
fella1778
gilla1790
gloak1795
joker1811
gory1819
covey1821
chappie1822
Charley1825
hombre1832
brother-man1839
rooster1840
blokie1841
hoss1843
Joe1846
guy1847
plug1848
chal1851
rye1851
omee1859
bloke1861
guffin1862
gadgie1865
mug1865
kerel1873
stiff1882
snoozer1884
geezer1885
josser1886
dude1895
gazabo1896
jasper1896
prairie dog1897
sport1897
crow-eater1899
papa1903
gink1906
stud1909
scout1912
head1913
beezer1914
jeff1917
pisser1918
bimbo1919
bozo1920
gee1921
mush1936
rye mush1936
basher1942
okie1943
mugger1945
cat1946
ou1949
tess1952
oke1970
bra1974
muzhik1993
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > [noun] > gullible person, dupe
foola1382
woodcockc1430
geckc1530
cousinc1555
cokes1567
milch cow1582
gudgeon1584
coney1591
martin1591
gull1594
plover1599
rook1600
gull-finch1604
cheatee1615
goata1616
whirligig1624
chouse1649
coll1657
cully1664
bubble1668
lamb1668
Simple Simon?1673
mouth1680
dupe1681
cull1698
bub1699
game1699
muggins1705
colour1707
milk cow1727
flat1762
gulpin1802
slob1810
gaggee1819
sucker1838
hoaxee1840
softie1850
foozle1860
lemon1863
juggins1882
yob1886
patsy1889
yapc1894
fall guy1895
fruit1895
meemaw1895
easy mark1896
lobster1896
mark1896
wise guy1896
come-on1897
pushover1907
John1908
schnookle1908
Gretchen1913
jug1914
schnook1920
soft touch1924
prospect1931
steamer1932
punter1934
dill1941
Joe Soap1943
possum1945
Moreton Bay1953
easy touch1959
1698 In Vino Veritas 25 How prettily we top upon those Rum Culls called Gentlemen.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. xii. 260 A Way to empty the Pockets of a Queer Cull . View more context for this quotation
a1764 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 107 The hen-peck'd culls of vixen wives.
1839 W. H. Ainsworth Jack Sheppard I. i. iii. 58 Capital trick of the cull in the cloak to make another person's brat stand the brunt for his own.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

culln.3

Brit. /kʌl/, U.S. /kəl/
Etymology: < cull v.1
1. The act or product of culling; a selection.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > selecting from a number or for a purpose > the product of selection
coil1574
culla1618
delibation1624
culling1692
selecta1734
the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun]
slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
a1618 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 383 Some curious Cull Of Croton Dames so choicely Beautifull.
a1643 J. Spelman Case of Affaires (1644) 17 This man..presents the world with a cull of all the irregular times of our unfortunate Princes.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xii. ii, in Wks. 321 To make a Cull out of your several Tribes, of six Elders out of each Tribe.
1958 Times 20 May 4/3 An annual cull should be carried out..to limit further increases in the grey seal population.
1968 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 May 559/4 A list of the words and phrases I'd found, which may be of interest as showing an average daily cull from an intelligent newspaper.
2. Farming. An animal drafted from the flock as being inferior or too old for breeding; usually fattened for the market. Also, a bird drafted as inferior; and figurative. Cf. culling n.1 3. (Usually in plural)The use in quot. 1791 is peculiar.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > flock of > inferior member of
culler1538
kebber1538
outcast1671
cull1791
the world > animals > birds > [noun] > inferior
villain1481
cull1919
1791 Ann. Agric. 16 493 The Burford ewes are..culled every year; the oldest are fattened and the ram given to the culls, to answer the purpose of westerns.
1809 Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 801/2 We have our lamb fairs..our shearling fairs, our fairs for culls.
1858 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 19 i. 39 20 fat cows..the culls of their herds.
1880 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 463 They were ‘culls’, that is sheep drafted out of other flocks for some fault or on account of age.
1919 H. L. Wilson Ma Pettengill viii. 253 It made him feel like a social cull or an outcast, or something.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 359/1 Many culls are unhealthy or diseased and are a potential danger to all other birds with which they come into contact.
attributive.1793 Ann. Agric. 19 148 Cull ewes, generally..called draught ewes.1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 322/1 The purchasing of ‘cull’ or old ewes from some good breeder.
3. chiefly plural and attributive.
Categories »
a. North American. ‘Refuse timber, from which the best part has been culled out’ (Webster 1864). Also cull lumber.
b. U.S. ‘Any refuse stuff; as, in bakeries, rolls not properly baked’ (Webster Supp. 1881).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > undressed trunk or log > types of > rejected collectively
cull1829
1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada I. 245 The refuse wood is called culls, and brings an inferior price.
1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 647 Culls are a quality manufactured from winding, worm-eaten, shaky or dry-rot timber, badly manufactured, or less than sixteen (16) inches in length.
1873 Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin 29 593 About 90,000 feet was not good merchantable lumber, but was what is called culls.
1897 F. C. Moore How to build Home ii. 23 The ‘cull’ lumber should be put in the closets, storerooms, and upper or attic rooms.
1953 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. I (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 35 Cull, (a) an inferior plant rejected from nursery stock, (b) trees or logs that are of merchantable size but are rendered unmerchantable by defects.
1969 L. G. Sorden Lumberjack Lingo 30 Cull, rejected logs having little or no value.
c. Fruit rejected as being of inferior quality. (See also Eng. Dial. Dict.) Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > [noun] > damaged or rejected
speck1851
cull1937
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > fruit crop > rejected part of
cull1937
1937 Nature 7 Aug. 222/1 The utilization of farm wastes and by-products is being investigated; already cull citrus fruits in California are being processed for producing citric acid, citrus oils and pectin.
1951 New Biol. 10 56 Malformed and scarred apples were discarded, and it became a matter of moment to reduce the proportion of ‘culls’ or waste.
1962 Times 31 Mar. 9/7 Some cull apples go, at a low price, into cider manufacture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cullv.1

Brit. /kʌl/, U.S. /kəl/
Forms: Also Middle English cole, Middle English–1600s culle, 1500s–1600s cul.
Etymology: < Old French cuillir and -er, later cueillir, in imperative cuille , coille , cueille /køɬ/, to collect, gather, take, select, etc. = Provençal coillir , cuelhir , culhir , Catalan cullir , Spanish coger , Portuguese colher , Italian cogliere < Latin colligĕre , present indicative colligo , which became subsequently colgo , coglio , and was conjugated in different parts of the Romanic domain with -ĕre (Italian), -ēre (Spanish and Portuguese), -īre (Provençal and French), -āre (French). The word was frequent in Middle English in the form coil (see coil v.1, and compare coil v.3) for the Old French form coillir ; cull appears in the 15th cent., and may represent the French stem cuell- , cueill- : compare Middle English puple for French pueple , peuple . Compare also Middle English cuyl v., to collect.
1. transitive. To choose from a number or quantity; to select, pick. Now most frequently used of making a literary selection. cull out: to pick out, select (archaic).
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose
markOE
to choose out1297
out-trya1325
cullc1330
welec1330
try1340
walea1350
coil1399
drawa1400
to mark outa1450
electa1513
sorta1535
prick1536
exempta1538
select1567
sort1597
to gather out1611
single1629
delibate1660
to cut out1667
outlooka1687
draught1714
draft1724
to tell off1727
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > extract > extract (from) [verb (transitive)] > select (extract)
culla1513
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2731 Sex hundred of hyse he colede out, Þat proued were, hardy & stout.
a1400 K. Alis. 2686 Foure thousand knyghtis,..Y-coled alle for the nones.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 107 Cullyn' owte, segrego, lego, separo.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxviii. f. cxxxix The Auctours so Rawe and so ferre to Culle.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. Pref. sig. ¶¶3 Certayne haue I culled out of the Decamerone of..Boccaccio.
a1593 H. Smith Serm. (1622) 338 To cull out of all the people, those which had best courage.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 60 It is no small advantage to pick or cull out the best Seed.
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. viii. 82 This Villian was culled out to be sacrificed to the just Resentment of the People.
1783 G. Crabbe Village ii. 35 Words aptly cull'd, and meanings well exprest.
1877 ‘H. A. Page’ T. De Quincey: Life & Writings I. vi. 111 From various notes of later dates we cull the following.
2. To gather, pick, pluck (flowers, fruits, etc.).
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > by plucking or picking > from a natural source
gatherOE
pluckOE
picka1393
take1477
cull1637
1637 J. Milton Comus 10 The Sirens three..Culling their Potent hearbs.
a1763 W. Shenstone Elegies iv, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 17 Then elegance.., Shall cull fresh flow'rets for Ophelia's tomb.
1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 135 A sprig of mountain ash culled by moonlight.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 12 The strawberries just culled.
figurative.1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude xiii. 340 Where I could..cull Knowledge that step by step might lead me on.
3. transferred. To subject to the process of selection; to select or gather the choice things or parts from.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose > pick out the best
garble1484
coil1607
cream1615
geld1637
cull1713
to pick over1732
1713 Guardian 26 Sept. 2/1 I shall always pick and cull the Basket for him.
1821 A. Fisher Voy. Arctic Regions 1819–20 230 I thought that, by attempting to cull it [a subject] I might omit some circumstances that deserved to be mentioned.
1881 Gardeners' Chron. No. 417. 823 The ground is culled at intervals of three, four, or five years.
4.
a. To pick out (livestock, etc.) according to their quality. Also absol.The earliest examples are Australian and New Zealand but the word is now widely used in Britain and elsewhere.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (transitive)]
slayc1000
slaughter1535
kill1560
to bring down1768
bag1814
mop1859
murder1863
beef1869
cull1889
carcass1906
harvest1947
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > cull livestock
cull1889
1889 G. P. Williams & W. P. Reeves Colonial Couplets 9 I'd far sooner choose To be writing to you, than be culling the ewes.
1927 M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor xii. 125 Christison used to cull on clearly defined lines. At first coarse calves were culled.
1929 ‘M. B. Eldershaw’ House is Built i. 10 There were a few lean, dejected cattle, the best of them having been culled out hours before [by buyers].
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 387/3 All ewes on this farm, which are crossbred sheep, are culled for quality and not for age.
1968 J. F. Gordon Beagle Guide 170 Cull, to eliminate unwanted hounds.
1969 Listener 27 Mar. 439/3 The battery boys ‘cull’ (or liquidate) their hens when they've laid for about a year.
1970 Kenya Farmer Feb. 15/2 A bigger cow..will..fetch a higher price at culling.
b. spec. To select and kill (wild animals or birds), usually in order to improve the stock or reduce the population.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (transitive)] > wild animals
cull1934
the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > kill animal [verb (intransitive)]
kill1857
cull1979
1934 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 12 Apr. 10/4 With the object of determining the best method of culling deer in the Tararuas..the sum of £10 was granted by the Wellington Acclimatisation Society last night.
1963 E. Robins Africa's Wild Life xxvi. 212 One should cull at least 50% of one's herd annually.
1964 [implied in: C. Willock Enormous Zoo vi. 102 The experimental shooting of hippo—culling is the polite conservation term for it—had begun. (at culling n.1 1b)].
1978 Orcadian 31 Aug. 1/2 Lord Cranbrook..said that 10,000-plus [seal] pups had been culled in the last ten years.
1979 S. Flint Let Seals Live! i. 20 It always appeared to me that the..Nature Conservancy Council had been coerced into appearing to back the decision to cull when its unpopularity became evident.
5. Forestry. (See quots.) North American.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > reject inferior timber
cull1904
1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories 49 A log is culled, or thrown out, when..it will not make good timber.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 9 Cull, to take out of a forest by selection a portion of the trees.
1953 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. I (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 35 To cull, (a) to reject inferior plants from nursery stock, (b) to deduct the effective portion of a merchantable log or piece of timber from the gross volume in scaling or measuring timber. (Canada.)
1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. iv. 59 Once raised, the stocks should be culled—that is, any obviously stunted, mis-shapen or diseased specimens should be thrown aside.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cullv.2

Forms: Also 1500s kull.
Etymology: Variant of coll v.1
Obsolete or dialect.
a. transitive. To fondle in the arms, hug.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)]
clipc950
freeOE
beclipc1000
windc1175
fang?c1200
yokec1275
umgripea1300
to take in (also into, on) one's armsc1300
umbefold14..
collc1320
lapc1350
bracec1375
embracec1386
clapa1400
folda1400
halsea1400
umbeclapa1400
accollc1400
fathomc1400
halchc1400
haspc1400
hoderc1440
plighta1450
plet?a1500
cuddlec1520
complect1523
umbfoldc1540
clasp1549
culla1564
cully1576
huggle1583
embosom1590
wrap1594
collya1600
cling1607
bosom1608
grasp1609
comply1648
huddlea1650
smuggle1679
inarm1713
snuggle1775
cwtch1965
a1564 T. Becon Jewel of Joy in Wks. (1844) 443 To kiss and kull him as his dear darling.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiij Least making a wanton of my first,..I should..kil it by cullyng it.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Div He..Hugges, culles, and clippes him in his aged armes.
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 535 Oh! how they could hug and cull it.
b. cull-me-to-you n. rural name of the pansy.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers
pansyc1450
heartsease1530
pansy flower1530
three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548
bulbous violet1578
love-in-idleness1578
sweet violet1578
pensea1592
cull-me-to-you1597
dog's tooth violet1597
dog violet1597
kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597
live in idleness1597
wild violet1597
yellow violet1597
love-and-idle1630
love-in-idle1664
trinity1699
fancy1712
wood violet1713
marsh violet1753
tree violet1753
kiss-me-at-the-gate1787
bird's-foot violet1802
Parma violet1812
Johnny-jump-up1827
stepmother1828
Neapolitan violet1830
garden gate1842
butterfly pea1848
kissa1852
pinkany-John1854
viola1871
kiss-me1877
pink-eyed John1877
face and hood1886
roosterhead1894
trout-lily1909
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 705 Harts ease, Pansies, Liue in Idlenes, Cull me to you, and three faces in a hood.
1814 L. Hunt Feast Poets Cuddle-me-to-you, which seems to have been altered by some nice apprehension into the less vivacious request of Cull-me-to-you.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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