scull
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1. scull - Noun
2. scull - Verb
3. Scull - Proper noun
Meaning
The skull.
A shoal of fish.
A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.
One of a pair of short oars worked by one person.
A single oar used at the stern in propelling a boat.
The common skua gull.
To impel (a boat) with a pair of sculls, or with a single scull or oar worked over the stern obliquely from side to side.
To impel a boat with a scull or sculls.
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scull the boat
An oar is often referred to as a blade in the case of sweep oar rowing and as a scull in the case of sculling.
Commonly used sculls include support scull, stationary scull, propeller scull, alligator scull, torpedo scull, split scull, barrel scull, spinning scull and paddle scull.
Support scull is performed by holding the upper arms against the sides of the body and the fore arms at 90-degree angles to the body, with hands facing the bottom of the pool.
The support scull is used most often to support the body while a swimmer is performing upside down.
The symmetrical forces also make sculling more efficient than rowing: the double scull is faster than the coxless pair, and the quadruple scull is faster than the coxless four.