scull
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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
A few etymologists liken the scooped blade of the scull to the hollow basin of the skull—and others have argued that humans once made these drinking-bowls from actual human skulls.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021
She learned how to row a scull in 2015 and won a bronze medal in the women’s coxless pair at the Southeast Asian Games hosted by Singapore later that year.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Norwegian rower Olaf Tufte, 45, is heading to his seventh Olympics but his first in the quad scull.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2021
Lo! mixt with air his worthless ghost has fled; Surgeon, his paleness speaks the monster dead; Part, part the sutures of his brazen scull, Hard as a rock, impenetrably dull.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
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
And to finish off the morning, GB’s Annabel Caddick and Samuel Murray secured silver in the PR3 mixed double sculls after holding off the threat of German duo Jan Helmich and Hermine Krumbein.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
In the mixed double sculls PR3, Great Britain's Annie Caddick and Sam Murray pipped Germany to claim silver.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
Hackett held us up on the way back to look through the windows of the boathouse and point out the single sculls and the eight-man longboats.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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
Thanking my good fellow for his care, I bade him good night, and sculled off rapidly, keeping well away from the embankment, lest there should be timbers near the foot of it.
From The MS. in a Red Box by Hamilton, John Arthur
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
Row boats and sailboats are available for rent at some locations, and a couple of boathouses cater to those who want to enjoy classic sculling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2019
So George took his time, carefully and meticulously handcrafting a single sculling shell from Norwegian pine and mahogany.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
