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- verb Present participle of
skull . - noun The act of determining the age a young bird by measuring the degree of
ossification of its skull.
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Examples
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Take a skulling paddle and a stauter boat and you can find some monsters right under the dock.
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Take a skulling paddle and a stauter boat and you can find some monsters right under the dock.
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Persons who trust themselves upon such frail vehicles should be able to swim, for as these people have no idea of skulling, and use only one paddle to each Ramous, they row alternately to leeward and windward, so that the Ramous is never directed towards the shore.
Travels in Nubia 2004
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He glanced out of the window and watched a child skulling a boat among the junks, the sea as safe and familiar to her as dry land.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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He glanced out of the window and watched a child skulling a boat among the junks, the sea as safe and familiar to her as dry land.
Noble House Clavell, James 1981
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You used to enjoy so much skulling around that little pond of Mr. Mason's in his flat boat, what would you do to be bounding over the water as we are now?
Hurrah for New England! The Virginia Boy's Vacation Louisa C. Tuthill
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Nothing, I confess, now looks to me more completely out of character with our well-starched discipline than a “staid lieutenant” romping about the booms, skulling up the rigging, blowing the grampus, and having it blown upon him by a parcel of rattle-pated reefers.
The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862
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But his time was up, his minutes were numbered, and like a shot he bolted from the table, skulling or rather clawing away towards the door, by the backs of the chairs, like a green parrot, until he reached the marine at the bottom of the ladder, at the door of the captain's cabin, round whose neck he immediately fetterlocked his fins.
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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There was their new recruit, George LorraLee, skulling frantically back to the Montrose Banks.
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There was their new recruit, George LorraLee, skulling frantically back to the Montrose Banks.
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