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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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Culling

Cull"ing\ (k?l"?ng), n. 1. The act of one who culls.

2. pl. Anything separated or selected from a mass.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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