All 15 Uses of
cull
in
Jacob Have I Loved
- Into it each crab pot will be emptied and from it the legal-sized crabs—hard, peeler, and soft—will be culled from their smaller kin as well as from the blowfish, sea nettles, seaweed, shells, and garbage, all such unwelcome harvest as the Bay seems ever generous to offer up.†
Chpt Rass *
- His mother and grandmother were destitute, and my father offered to take him aboard the Portia Sue as an oyster culler.†
Chpt 14
- He would open the rakes and drop his catch onto the wooden culling board.†
Chpt 14culling = selecting from among many
- There Call, his hands in heavy rubber gloves, would cull, using a culling hammer.†
Chpt 14cull = select from among many
- There Call, his hands in heavy rubber gloves, would cull, using a culling hammer.†
Chpt 14culling = selecting from among many
- My father took a few days off to shoot duck, and then put the culling board back on the Portia Sue and headed out for oysters.†
Chpt 15
- We tongers stood perched on the washboards of our tiny boats, and, just as our fathers and grandfathers had before us, used our fir-wood tongs, three or four times taller than our own bodies, to reach down gently to the oyster bed, feel the bottom until we came to a patch of market-sized oysters, and then closing the rakes over the catch, bringing it up to the culling board.†
Chpt 15
- Of course, we could not help but bring up some spat, as every oyster clings to its bed until the culling hammer forces a separation, but compared to the dredge, we left the precious bottom virtually undisturbed to provide a bed for the oysters that would be harvested by our children's children.†
Chpt 15
- At first, I was only a culler, but if we found a rich bed, I'd tong as well, and then when the culling board was loaded, I'd bring in my last tong full hand over hand, dump it on the board, and cull until I'd caught up with my father.†
Chpt 15
- At first, I was only a culler, but if we found a rich bed, I'd tong as well, and then when the culling board was loaded, I'd bring in my last tong full hand over hand, dump it on the board, and cull until I'd caught up with my father.†
Chpt 15culling = selecting from among many
- At first, I was only a culler, but if we found a rich bed, I'd tong as well, and then when the culling board was loaded, I'd bring in my last tong full hand over hand, dump it on the board, and cull until I'd caught up with my father.†
Chpt 15cull = select from among many
- A live oyster, a good one, when it hits the culling board has a tightly closed shell.†
Chpt 15culling = selecting from among many
- I could see my culling like a trail behind us on the quickly forming ice patches.†
Chpt 15
- "Well," I said, "I guess you won't be culling for Daddy this winter."†
Chpt 16
- I was the child who had fished his crab floats and culled his oysters, but I was so far along in my ninth month that I knew better than anyone how crazy it would be to try such a trip; so Joseph went in my place and got back to the farm four days before our son was born.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
to select from among many -- sometimes what is desired; sometimes to eliminate that which is not wanted