scull the boat. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Rowing in a racing shell or "scull" resembles skating on a pond. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Littman: How To Recharge Your Business Batteries] Reference
So the bones and the scull are the same. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2007] Reference
Cut to man rowing in a scull across a still river. From Wordnik.com. [Brutal House GOP Primary Getting Nastier Everyday] Reference
Watching her scull the skiff across, June thought. From Wordnik.com. [To Let] Reference
Remove thou yonder scull out from the scattered heaps. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
Back to the wild shore turns the man with single scull. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
It was in his mind gallantly to scull the thing across. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Herbert and Neb each took one, and Pencroft took the scull. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
Almost as exciting as the scull races on the Charles, eh Biff?. From Wordnik.com. [Vogue, Traveler Get Thorough Exams, Courtesy of McKinsey] Reference
The men scull standing and use the thigh as a rest for the oar. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
And it is the scull now -- the dugong still lives in the Red Sea. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2007] Reference
'You had better come down with me to the "Swan" and scull up again.'. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
Several times the oar jumped out of the scull hole in the skiff, and once. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
Tom tied the sheet astern, and, seizing his paddle, tried to scull the boat. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
"I can't make out very well, but I think she has lost a scull and her rudder.". From Wordnik.com. [Littlebourne Lock] Reference
"I can scull you over the river in a few minutes, if you will go in our skiff.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Kathleen could row, and she put the oars in the rowlocks, and sat down to scull. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Drinking cup, being the scull of a native with the sutures closed with wax or gum. From Wordnik.com. [An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans, by Edward John Eyre] Reference
Not yet fixed, though she was soon back out rowing her scull on Lake Burley Griffin. From Wordnik.com. [Journal for 14 June 1999] Reference
Setting the oar in the scull-hole, he brought the boat's head once more into the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
His body was frightfully mangled and torn, his scull fractured, and all his limbs broken. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Tess, trying frantically to slow and steady her scull, had a bona fide moment of prescience. From Wordnik.com. ['Another Thing to Fall'] Reference
Gcaleka said his forefathers had in dreams guided him to the scull on a remote Scottish farm. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Neb took one of the oars, Herbert the other, and Pencroft remained in the stern in order to use the scull. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysterious Island] Reference
Slightly larger creatures that resembled mosquitoes or midges seemed to scull along with winged appendages. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
We lurched along, my scull sometimes buried to the thwart, sometimes striking at the bubbles of a wave top. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
Lauren coached me back into my scull, helped me to set the stretchers, and then I discovered something remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Littman: How To Recharge Your Business Batteries] Reference
A relative of the Brooke family, on whose farm the scull was found, has confirmed the scull belonged to a Xhosa king. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Wikkell and Deek paused to dine upon several carefully selected fungi and to rest from their labors at the scull oar. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Indomitable]
Comprehension dawning, the cops reached out and steadied her orphaned scull alongside the starboard side of their boat. From Wordnik.com. ['Another Thing to Fall'] Reference
And just when I'd start to get the hang of it, a motorboat pulling a wakeboard would roar by, the wake nearly capsizing my scull. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Littman: How To Recharge Your Business Batteries] Reference
Katie joined us after a similar battle on her scull, with the wind blowing straight down the Canning River and kicking up white horses. From Wordnik.com. [Journal for 30 December 2000] Reference
Katie has her scull in the Edith Cowan University boatshed on the Canning River, and tries to be on the water at 6am several days a week. From Wordnik.com. [Journal for 22 November] Reference
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