cull /kʌl/verb 6noun 7forms 5 verb6 •To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album — 1984 •To select (animals, plants, etc) from a group and then kill (them) in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.[…] and tropical ash (81 percent of trees culled). Excessive lean, the second major culling factor, accounted for […] 13 percent of the tropical ash cull trees, and […] — 1970 •To lay off in order to reduce the numbers of; get rid of.The company culled more employees this month. •To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons. •To gather, collect.[T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […] — 1832 •To kill (an animal, person, etc) for any reason. noun7 •A selection. •An organized killing of selected animals. •An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded. •A lobster having only one claw. •A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen. •(dialect, slang) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat. — 1749 •(slang, no longer used) A man or boy.But you don't want no dealings with that cull. A darker villain I never did see. — 1997 formsculled · culling · culleth · culls · cullest
