scull
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Back on land, the crew donned blazers and burned an old wooden scull in Peterhouse’s garden.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
These classes teach beginners in small groups to scull in stable, single boats, emphasizing boat skills and introducing rowers to larger boats.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
A few etymologists liken the scooped blade of the scull to the hollow basin of the skull—and others have argued that humans once made these drinking-bowls from actual human skulls.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021
Great Britain's 2020 Olympic rowing frustration continued as Vicky Thornley was edged out of a medal despite a late push in the women's single scull.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021
This is better than bringing the thumb under the scull; it gives the wrists more play, and tends to avoid cramp of the forearm.
From Boating by W. B. Woodgate
The author, who lives in Culver City, is still married to the erstwhile sailor, but she now sculls at UCLA’s Marina Aquatic Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
The author, who lives in Culver City, is still married to the erstwhile sailor, but she now sculls at UCLA’s Marina Aquatics Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Rowers Lauren Henry, Lola Anderson, Georgina Brayshaw and Hannah Scott won the Team of the Year for their dramatic victory in the women's quadruple sculls at Paris 2024.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
Great Britain's Lauren Rowles and Gregg Stevenson left it late to claim a thrilling Paralympic gold in the mixed doubles sculls in Paris.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
Hackett held us up on the way back to look through the windows of the boathouse and point out the single sculls and the eight-man longboats.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
They sculled upside-down, slapped their pecs and flukes seemingly just for fun, maybe just to hear the resonant, smacking sound.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2019
Final flat whites were sculled at overpriced cafes and out-of-office signatures attached to emails.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2018
But on Sept. 23 the 72-year-old took to the Mississippi River near the Bass Street Landing and sculled for the first time in his life.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2014
He almost sculled it, real hot running past the hole.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 9, 2014
He jumped into the dinghy and sculled her silently into the mist that drifted between the vessels; and half an hour later Clay came off with the diver in the gig.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
The longer you stay underwater, kicking your feet, sculling your arms against all that heaviness and bright blue, the worse it gets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
During covid we got our sculling license, so we’d do some sculling for maybe an hour.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
“I know no one would care about my sculling techniques in an office, so I’m grateful I’m able to cash in on my lifelong work.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2016
To learn the quickness and spontaneity that characterizes good sculling, spend some time watching animals.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2013
She waited for this command, sculling her wings.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
