All 3 Uses
cull
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Still Captain Culler broke a window in the Kildare street club with a slog to square leg.†
Chpt 5 *
- And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and Cuffe's prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bullocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of Thomond,†
Chpt 12
- Subsequently he enclosed a bloom of edelweiss culled on the heights, as he said, in my honour.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(cull) to select from among many -- sometimes what is desired; sometimes to eliminate that which is not wanted
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)