Cull

[cull]

To cull means to select or gather. If you decide to make a literary anthology, you must cull the best possible stories and then arrange them in a pleasing manner.

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To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cuil flowers.

Noun
the person or thing rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

Verb
look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"

Verb
remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd"


v. t.
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

n.
A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.


Cull

Cull (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p.p. Culled (k?ld); p. pr.& . n. Culling.] [OE.ullen, 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 cuil flowers.
From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls.
Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled.

Cull

Cull, n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Gully.

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cuil flowers.

A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Gully.

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