scull
noun
an oar mounted on a fulcrum at the stern of a small boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
are sculling
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present progressiveof scull.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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When two are sculling they swing in time, but in opposite directions, and there is no exercise that displays the grace of the human body in action to better advantage.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
There is more satisfaction in squaring one’s back, and fighting against it, and winning one’s way forward in spite of it—at least, so I feel, when Harris and George are sculling and I am steering.
From Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
