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cull

  [kuhl]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to choose; select; pick.
2. to gather the choice things or parts from.
3. to collect; gather; pluck.
–noun
4. act of culling.
5. something culled, esp. something picked out and put aside as inferior.
Origin:
1300–50; ME coilen, cuilen, cullen < AF, OF cuillir < L colligere to gather; see collect 1

Related forms:
culler, noun

Synonyms:
2. glean, extract. 3. garner, winnow.
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cull   (kŭl)   
tr.v.   culled, cull·ing, culls
  1. To pick out from others; select.
  2. To gather; collect.
  3. To remove rejected members or parts from (a herd, for example).
n.  Something picked out from others, especially something rejected because of inferior quality.

[Middle English cullen, from Old French cuillir, from Latin colligere; see collect1.]
cull'er n.
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Cull

Cull\ (k?l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Culled (k?ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Culling.] [OE. cullen, OF. cuillir, coillir, F. cueillir, to gather, pluck, pick, fr. L. colligere. See Coil, v. t., and cf. Collect.] To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

From his herd he culls, For slaughter, from the fairest of his bulls. --Dryden.

Whitest honey in fairy gardens culled. --Tennyson.

Cull

Cull\, n. A cully; a dupe; a gull. See Cully.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : cull
Spanish: seleccionar, escoger,
German: pflücken,
Japanese: より抜く
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cull 
c.1330, originally "put through a strainer," from O.Fr. coillir "collect, gather, select," from L. colligere "gather together," originally "choose, select" (see collect).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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