Contestant at Henley

Usage examples of sculler.

When he had fitted the oars into the rowlocks and shoved off with a grunt, I lay back in the sculler and watched the thinning spray of lights ashore.

I closed my eyes and felt the sculler slip between the stone piers and plunge, weightless, into five feet of roaring darkness and a sudden rush of spray and air.

I therefore chose a different tack, catching a sculler to Shadwell in order to visit the papermill of John Thimbleby.

One famous sculler indulged in a series of false starts to exhaust his rival.

Haman warned him to straighten out and as he did so, the Toronto sculler pulled ahead and won.

His backers, the Thompson brothers, well-known Melbourne bookmakers, believed their man could beat any sculler in the world.

They appeared in perfect training, neither too fat nor too fine, mettlesome as colts, steady as draught-horses, deep-breathed as oxen, disciplined to work together as symmetrically as a single sculler pulls his pair of oars.

Johnson and I took a sculler at the Temple-stairs, and set out for Greenwich.

Miss Burrows and Miss Barton have taken the other sculler down to the Isis.

The constable shouted to the up-coming sculler, and then pointed away towards the left bank.

Discouraged, I therefore chose a different tack, catching a sculler to Shadwell in order to visit the paper-mill of John Thimbleby.

I thought, bracing my feet against the tire, leaning into the angle of the wrench like a sculler leaning into an oar.

The nickname was a testament to his discipline as a sculler, a demanding sport that requires an almost absolute fanaticism if one is to be successful.

Even as he pulled the trigger, the sculler had dropped his oars and was running toward him, shouting as if to stop him.

In former days, scullers used to gain extra leverage by sliding back and forth on buffalo skins.