French: cueillir Norman: tchilyi (Jersey) Picard: tcheuiller → English: cull, coil Occitan: culhir, culir, cuèlher, còlher Ibero-Romance: Aragonese: cullir...
annihilate (informal) (to exert oneself to an excessive degree): bust one's ass (vulgar, slang) See also Thesaurus:kill cull instakill instant kill to put...
a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me. 1847 January...
case”), Old French trier (“to choose, pick out or separate from others, sift, cull”), of uncertain origin. It is probably related to Italian tritare (“to grind;...
patience. (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull. 1616, George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer[15]: To send his mother to...
New York, N.Y.: The Cassell Publishing Co. […], →OCLC, page 402: Crash the cull—down with him—down with him before he dubs the jigger. Tip him the degan...
(intransitive) To carry out a sortie; to sally. 1987, Christopher Shores, Brian Cull, with Nicola Malizia, “The Battles of Spring”, in Air War for Yugoslavia...