[syn: pick, pluck, cull]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cull \Cull\, n.
A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cull \Cull\ (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Culled (k?ld); p. pr. &
vb. n. Culling.] [OE.cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir,
F.cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See
Coil, v. t., and cf. Collect.]
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or
collect; as, to cull flowers.
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From his herd he culls,
For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. --Dryden.
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Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. --Tennyson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cull
n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as
inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject]
v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick
members of the herd"
2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn:
pick, pluck, cull]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "cull":
abscind, accumulate, amass, amputate, annihilate, assemble, ban,
bar, bob, bolt, bring together, choose out, clip, collect, cordon,
cordon off, crop, cull out, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out,
decide between, dig up, discriminate, divide, dock, elect,
eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except, excerpt, excise, exclude,
extinguish, extirpate, extract, garner, gather, gather in, get in,
get together, ghettoize, gin, glean, grub, grub up, handpick,
insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, knock off, lay aside,
lop, make a selection, mark, mutilate, nip, opt for, pare, peel,
pick, pick out, pick up, pluck, prefer, prune, put aside,
quarantine, rake up, riddle, root out, round up, rule out,
scare up, scrape together, scrape up, screen, seclude, segregate,
select, separate, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, sieve, sift,
single out, sort out, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off,
take, take off, take out, take up, thrash, thresh, truncate,
winnow, wipe out