What's the difference between culler and sculler?

Culler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This delay enabled the badger cullers to drive away into the darkness and continue their work without having to suffer the terror of a journalist politely stammering, "Excuse me sir, how is the badger cull going?"
  • (2) "He confirmed the final licence conditions had yet to be met by the cullers but could be fulfilled at any time, meaning badgers could begin to be killed immediately.As winter approaches, time is fast running out for the cull to begin because badgers lie low in their setts in the cold weather.
  • (3) In the early hours of Tuesday two saboteurs in Gloucestershire found a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
  • (4) The lead American inspector, Floyd Culler, an expert on plutonium extraction, noted in his reports that there were newly plastered and painted walls in one of the buildings.
  • (5) The main reason for it in this situation is simple: the cullers know only too well that no amount of reassuring information about the cull's efficiency, humaneness or safety can disguise the fact that badgers are being shot dead and most of the country finds this distressing and would like it to stop.
  • (6) It highlighted one incident in Gloucestershire in which two experienced saboteurs came across a badger trapped in a cage with cullers nearby.
  • (7) When the government announced the cull and argued that it was necessary to tackle bovine TB, there had already been a standoff between saboteurs and cullers.
  • (8) Those occupations with the highest estimated rates included helicopter and agricultural pilots, demolition labourers, deer cullers and commercial deer shooters.
  • (9) The concerns raised in the leaked note will be celebrated by the activists, who have added heat-detecting sensors to their armoury this year to help them pick out cullers in the pitch black.
  • (10) This time some activists will use thermal imaging devices they say will allow them to spot cullers from up to 1km (0.6 miles) away.

Sculler


Definition:

  • (n.) A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars.
  • (n.) One who sculls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wish the rest of the racers good luck – if you are rowing this week you better know how to swim.” Meanwhile, the Irish sculler Sanita Puspure, who finished one place ahead of Negm in second, described the conditions as “horrific”.
  • (2) One team member, the single sculler Alan Campbell, reckons he will have rehearsed every stroke of his probable Olympic final 36,000 times in the four years prior to it.
  • (3) The British sculler Alan Campbell, who looked particularly impressive in winning his heat, claimed the conditions reminded him of coastal rowing.
  • (4) The number of scullers on board in the different trials was one, two or four.
  • (5) The four's victory came after Britain's men's and women's double scullers claimed the team's first medals of the Olympic regatta, collecting bronze medals within 20 minutes of each other at Shunyi rowing lake.
  • (6) While the Egyptian sculler Nadia Negm reckoned the conditions were the worst in which she had rowed.
  • (7) At one point, the American sculler Genevra Stone nearly sunk like, well, a stone.
  • (8) An equation is developed (and solved) to describe the speed of a rowing boat as a function of the movement of the sculler's center of mass relative to the boat and the force applied.

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