sculler2+ (skuler)

[Found in mod. E. use only in the Sc. var. scudler, scudlar, and as involved in scullery, q. v.; escuellier, escueillier, escuillier, esculier, escullier, esculer, esquelier, an officer who had charge of sculpin 2t. Slops; garbage; offal. ulancy, and fanatick contempt. The soot and skullery of vulgar insolency, plebeian pet Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 258. (Davies.) sculling (skul'ing), n . [Verbal n. of scull2 , v .] The act or operation of propelling a boat with one oar at the stern. The oar is moved sidewise with a peculiar twist or feathering by which the handle describes a figure of 8, and the blade pre es against the water alternately on the one side and the other. The action of the blade resembles that of a screw propeller, but the motion is alternating or reversed at each stroke, instead of a continuous revolution. See cut under scull2.