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scull

[skuhl] / skʌl /


NOUN
paddle
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Back on land, the crew donned blazers and burned an old wooden scull in Peterhouse’s garden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

In scull rowing, the athlete propels the boat by swinging two oars at the same time.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021

"Although it is a fourth - again - that is history made. It is the highest any female scull has come at the Olympic Games."

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021

Usually twice a week since August, I ease myself into a one-person scull, push away from the dock, do “eggbeater” drills to remind myself of the boat’s feel.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2020

He had taught him to row, and to scull, and to make and bait and busk a line, and to swim as well.

From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables

The author, who lives in Culver City, is still married to the erstwhile sailor, but she now sculls at UCLA’s Marina Aquatic Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

The author, who lives in Culver City, is still married to the erstwhile sailor, but she now sculls at UCLA’s Marina Aquatics Center.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

Rowers Lauren Henry, Lola Anderson, Georgina Brayshaw and Hannah Scott won the Team of the Year for their dramatic victory in the women's quadruple sculls at Paris 2024.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

It was not just individuals who stood out, with GB’s golden Sunday including mixed double sculls, mixed coxed four, mixed team sprint and mixed freestyle triumphs.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2024

The Vancouver Rowing Club, hearing of their reputation in England, commissioned them to build two single sculls for one hundred dollars apiece.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

They sculled upside-down, slapped their pecs and flukes seemingly just for fun, maybe just to hear the resonant, smacking sound.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2019

Final flat whites were sculled at overpriced cafes and out-of-office signatures attached to emails.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2018

But on Sept. 23 the 72-year-old took to the Mississippi River near the Bass Street Landing and sculled for the first time in his life.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2014

He almost sculled it, real hot running past the hole.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 9, 2014

When the tears had ceased to flow, but still stood in big drops on the little face, Ruby looked up at Christian and then toward Danny, where he sculled at the stern.

From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine

A gifted athlete, he became the first Indian to win the Macklin Sculls - a prestigious single sculling race - at the Calcutta Lake Club in 1938.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

The longer you stay underwater, kicking your feet, sculling your arms against all that heaviness and bright blue, the worse it gets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

They leaned against their kitchen counters for backbends and handstands and used resistance bands to practice sculling, the vigorous hand and forearm movements that help propel the swimmers.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021

During covid we got our sculling license, so we’d do some sculling for maybe an hour.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021

“You’re just in need of my help,” said Janice, sculling again through her cantaloupe.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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