culler
Britishnoun
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a person employed to cull animals
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an animal, esp a sheep, designated for culling
Example Sentences
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The sprightly 66-year-old swung the basket inboard, where his culler of 42 years, Monroe Dorsey, 68, a slim cigar clenched under his white mustache, dumped a few dozen wriggling crustaceans into a fiberglass basin.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2016
His mother and grandmother were destitute, and my father offered to take him aboard the Portia Sue as an oyster culler.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
Adieu, O culler of offensive expressions—‘and a’ to be a posy to your ain dear May!’—Fanny seems a little revived again after her spasm of work.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
I have a table, or what I call a culler; the apples are picked and put into these cullers; I have twelve men to each culler and a boss over them.
From The Apple by Various
I never saw so lean a thing as that same culler of simples," said Hamlet, laughing; "a matter of ribs and shanks, a mere skeleton painted black.
From A Midnight Fantasy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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