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- They'd sailed in search of the Northwest Passage, as many Spaniards did in those days, and their pilot and captain, Martin de Aquilar of the Vizcaino expedition, sent a work detail ashore to cull a fresh spar pole from among the hemlocks at water's edge.†
Chpt 1cull = select from among many
- Then he went and put five acres into raspberries and dumped money into that experiment—wire and cedar posts, labor to build trellises—it set them back until he figured how to cull the canes and train them to produce.†
Chpt 9 *
- Carl and the boys were out culling raspberry canes, and she found them down among the southward trellises, Carl cutting free the older stock, the boys filling the wheelbarrow.†
Chpt 20culling = selecting from among many
- And he swung both boys into the wheelbarrow and planted them on top of the culled canes.†
Chpt 20
- They were tying knots in the culled raspberry canes.†
Chpt 20
Definitions:
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(1)
(cull) to select from among many -- sometimes what is desired; sometimes to eliminate that which is not wanted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)