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culch

/kʌlt͡ʃ/

culch noun: the rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.

Noun

culch (uncountable)

  1. The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
  2. (Maine, US) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
  3. (Maine, US) Junk or debris.

Adjective

culch (not comparable)

  1. (Maine, US) Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.

Verb

culch (third-person singular simple present culches, present participle culching, simple past and past participle culched)

  1. To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.

Forms of culch

Noun
alternative formsculch
alternative formscultch
alternative formkulch
alternative formcultch
Verb
third-person singular presentculches
present participleculching
past participleculched
pastculched

Origin of culch

Uncertain.

Words that rhyme with culch

Questions about culch

What does culch mean?
Culch means the rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
What part of speech is culch?
Culch can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce culch?
Culch is pronounced /kʌlt͡ʃ/.

Words near culch in the dictionary

  1. Culbreaths
  2. Culbreth
  3. Culbreths
  4. Culburra Beach
  5. Culcairn
  6. culch
  7. culcha
  8. culchas
  9. culched
  10. culches
  11. Culcheth

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