Sculler

Quick meaning: Sculler is a noun meaning One who sculls; an athlete who participates in sculling races.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A boat rowed by one person with two sculls, or short oars.

Example Sentences

They watched that boat. It was a double sculler, with two female figures in the stern; it came slothfully up past the ferry; the sculling was not very good […]

The first and second guns had been fired, and the scullers in their boats, each some ten yards apart from the other, are anxiously waiting the firing of the third, which is the signal for starting.

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Word Forms

• scullers

Synonyms for sculler

Depending on context, synonyms include scull.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oarsman, oar, scyther, sailboater, scutterer, scurrier.

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