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English
Noun
culch (uncountable)
- The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
- (US, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
- (US, Maine) Junk or debris.
Adjective
culch (not comparable)
- (US, Maine) Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
Verb
culch (third-person singular simple present culches, present participle culching, simple past and past participle culched)
- To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.