cull

verb

/kʌl/UK/kʊl/

Etymology

From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.

derived from colligō — “gather together”
derived from cuillir — “collect, gather, select”
inherited from cullen

Definitions

1
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
- 1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album
2
To gather, collect.
- [T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […]
- Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee […] is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the…
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
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1. To kill (animals, etc).
2. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
3. 6
  To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
  - back-face culling
4. A selection.
5. An organized killing of selected animals.
6. An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
7. A lobster having only one claw.
8. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group
  A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
9. 12
  A fool, gullible person
  A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
  - Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.
10. 13
  A man or boy.
  - But you don't want no dealings with that cull. A darker villain I never did see.
11. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

cullable, culler, Culpepper, overcull, unculled, ben-cull, mollying-cull, rum cull

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cull. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at cull. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at cull

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA