Scull Edit Meaning

1.

(v trans) to drink (an alcoholic beverage) in a single draught.

Syn. chug

Poss. derived from "skol" a term similar to "cheers!"

There is no bloody way I'm sculling that yard-glass.

2.

To drink a beverage (usually alcoholic) very quickly. Synonym for chug.

Scull! Scull! Scull!

3.

To row with an oar in each hand versus both hands on one oar as in sweep in a sliding seat rigged boat that is long and narrow. Usually a single rower. The opposite of the Team Sport of Crew. Great sport for the solitary athlete.

He sculls. She rows but she hates crew.

See scull, rower, crew

4.

A rower who uses two oars at the same time, one in each hand; this allows smaller boats to be rowed sculling, than sweep rowing. A pair being the smallest sweep boat with two people each with one oar. A single being the smallest sculling boat, with one person but two oars

To avoid confusion sweep and scull boats are named differently, a four man sweep boat is called simply "four", while a four man sculling boat is called " Quadruple scull" or just "quad"

The abbreviation for sculling boats is the number of rowers in the boat followed by an "x" to denote a scull then a "+" or "-" to denote coxed boats to coxless boats

Coxed Quadruple scull is "4x+"

Coxless Quadruple scull is "4x-"

See scull, rowing, crew

5.

To scull around; to mill around. To waste time in a lethargic manner, typically playing video games on rust-colored couches in the musty apartments of Ithaca, NY.

"Hey Nate, would you quit sculling around, we got shit to do!"

"I can't stand sculling around like this all day. I need to accomplish a task!"

See skull, waste, exist, destroy