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cull

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1. cull - Noun

2. cull - Verb

3. Cull - Proper noun

Meaning

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? Cormac McCarthy

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest. Charles Churchill (satirist)

It will take a brave person to cull the benefits system and analyse who deserves and who doesn't. Alan Sugar

Great toil is oft by trifling theme entailed, But whoso clearly sets it forth and well, No trifling fruit he from his skill doth cull. Giovanni Rucellai

pick mushrooms Source: Internet

pick flowers Source: Internet

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