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Definition of Cull out
1. Verb. Select desirable parts from a group or list. "Winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cull Out
Literary usage of Cull out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"observer by no means vilifies religion as regards its effects. He does not, with
Lucretius, cull out any legends of the seemingly evil result of devotion ..."
2. The New American Gardener: Containing Practical Directions on the Culture of by Thomas Green Fessenden (1832)
"Attend to your fruit in your fruit-room or cellar, on shelves or in boxes, and,
if necessary, pick it over, and cull out whatever is defective; ..."
3. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock, William Symington (1874)
"... he knows them in the world to guard them, and he knows them when they are out
of the world to gather them, and cull out their bodies, though wrapped up ..."
4. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1896)
"Then cull out all the inferior ewes in your flock. You can tell which ewes are
raising poor lambs. Then at that time, or from seven to ten days after the ..."
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