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cull

   [kuhl]
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, especially something picked out and put aside as inferior.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English coilen, cuilen, cullen < Anglo-French, Old French cuillir < Latin colligere to gather; see collect1

Related forms
cull·er, noun
out·cull, verb (used with object)
o·ver·cull, verb (used with object)
un·culled, adjective

Can be confused: call, caul, cull (see synonym note at call).

Synonyms
2. glean, extract. 3. garner, winnow.

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cull
early 14c., originally "put through a strainer," from O.Fr. coillir "collect, gather, select," from L. colligere "gather together," originally "choose, select" (see collect).
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cull definition


  1. n.
    a socially unacceptable person. : This place is so filled with culls! Let's split.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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