Definition of Culling

1. n. The act of one who culls.

Definition of Culling

1. Verb. (present participle of cull) ¹

2. Noun. The act of culling; the process of selecting for acceptance or removal. ¹

3. Noun. Anything separated or selected from a mass. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Culling

1. cull [v] - See also: cull

Lexicographical Neighbors of Culling

cull tree
cullay
cullays
culled
cullender
cullenders
culler
cullers
cullets
cullibility
cullible
cullied
cullies
cullin
culling (current term)
cullings
cullionly
cullions
cullis
cullises
culls
cully
cullying
cullyism
cullyisms
culm
culmed
culmen

Literary usage of Culling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by William Brown, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Robert Belt (1820)
"... subject thereto, to the said Josiah Maynard, he paying the said sum of 6.500/., and interest to the said culling Smith, on or before the lith of April, ..."

2. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1906)
"Thus has arisen the system of measurement and inspection known as Quebec culling. It is, perhaps, the most widely used of any system of lumber inspection in ..."

3. Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of More by Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1857)
"COLLECTION OF PICTURES BELONGING TO SIR culling EARDLEY, BART., BELVEDERE, ... The society of Sir culling and his family, and the interesting nature of the ..."

4. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1906)
"1428 Bust of Lady culling Smith. 1431 Marble bust of Mrs. Williams Helps. ... 1437 Bust of Sir culling Eardley Smith. 1444 Marble bust of William Helps, ..."

5. A Ranchman's Recollections: An Autobiography in which Unfamiliar Facts by Frank S. Hastings (1921)
"... BRAHMIN CATTLE ; culling A RANGE HERD WE have never used any Brahmin blood, but it has a wide use in Texas as far north as the Texas & Pacific Railroad. ..."

6. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1832)
"... 1 (Ф ~^3 connected milk personal properly. tion lor« Trespass for culling the plaintiff's barges from their moorings in the river A justifica MILMAN v. ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... appeared to many other persons at that time, culling them to faith and martyrdom (Euseb., "Hist. Eccl. , VI, iii-v). To these con versions, Origen, ..."

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