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Sculler

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who sculls; an athlete who participates in sculling races.

    "[…] each man discharged their péece, and killed the sayd waterman, which forthwith falling downe dead, the Sculler with much payne rowed through the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man, and the dead man in his boate […]"

  2. 2
    someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) wordnet
  3. 3
    A boat rowed by one person with two sculls, or short oars.

    "1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act III, p. 33, Alas! the Story's short: Your Father’s dead. He would needs take water in a Sculler; And to save part of the Charges, going to row, overturned the Boat upon a Buoy […]"

Etymology

From scull + -er.

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