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Sculled

Scull \Scull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sculled; p. pr. & vb. n. Sculling.] (Naut.) To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.

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sculled

vb. (en-past of: scull)

Usage examples of "sculled".

Instead of using her wings, as the wyverns had done, she sculled her body back and forth like a snake.

Then, satisfied, it sculled to the side and, with a great heave, hoisted itself onto the wall.

And pulling up to those tie-ups was a gondola sculled by a dusky girl in a dark cap.

By the time he'd hauled himself out of the washout the two boys were aboard the gondola and being sculled away, back into the shadowed bowels of the city.

Someone who sculled a gondola like she was canal born and bred, but nobody knew her.

The Water Rat, like the good little fellow he was, sculled steadily on and forebore to disturb him.

Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat’s great joy and contentment.

Rat, who was in the stern of the boat, while Mole sculled, sat up suddenly and listened with a passionate intentness.

Then he sculled out to where the boat had dropped her anchor stone in an open mooring, as far away from other craft as she could get.

Making Gerd and Grith lie down in the bottom of the skiff, he sculled back to the shore, and thunderheads swallowed the last of the Three Ladies.

Feeling wet mist close around her, she ordered starved lungs not to breathe, and slowly sculled upward, toward light.

He sculled the punt slowly along the edge of the pool to where a tree, its roots undercut during one of the monsoon floods, thrust out from the bank.

Apparently satisfied, she sculled back towards the ship, giving a special flip of her tail in the direction of what had once been the most dangerous predator in the sea.

The three fugitives sculled themselves frantically on to the yellow morass.