culls

Noun (1)

cull (plural culls)

1. A selection.
2. An organized killing of selected animals.
   • It seemed that the sun shone and all was right in our Blakean islands until the government began to set in motion its promised cull of badgers in an effort to control bovine TB. Salvation for brock came in the form of an online petition started by Queen guitarist Brian May, the rising costs of the...2012 December 21, Isobel Montgomery, “A year that showed the best and worst of Britain”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 31
3. An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
4. (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
5. A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.

Noun (2)

cull (plural culls)

1. (dialectal, slang) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
   • Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 307

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