scull

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The Seattle Times called it the first boathouse in the city to teach elementary-school-age children how to scull in small boats.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 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

She learned how to row a scull in 2015 and won a bronze medal in the women’s coxless pair at the Southeast Asian Games hosted by Singapore later that year.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

Norwegian rower Olaf Tufte, 45, is heading to his seventh Olympics but his first in the quad scull.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2021

At top, a winged scull surmounted with an hour-glass, and crossed with a spade and scythe.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis