(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.
Scullery
Definition:
(n.) A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.
(n.) Hence, refuse; filth; offal.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparative search was made for healthy carriers of pathogenic staphylococcus among the kitchen, canteen and scullery staff of the Malpighi Hospital and the paramedical personnel of its geriatrics, out-patient and nephrology sections.
(2) For a start, and I suppose this shouldn't matter, she's attractive and could probably, if she so chose, feature in Downton Abbey as a highly prized and conscientious scullery maid.
(3) They lived 400 yards apart in the Hunslet neighbourhood, where there was a social distinction between those who had a scullery downstairs and those who did not.
(4) She is almost certainly a Downton scullery maid who had to leave when she caught the eye of the earl.