Word Finder - cull

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A selection.

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An organised killing of selected animals.

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(farming) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.

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(seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.

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A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.

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To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).

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To gather, collect.

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To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.

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To kill (animals etc).

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To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.

Decide which you like best, and cull the rest.

To use false rumors to spread fears of a mass cull is utterly irresponsible.

Remove the stems and cull any imperfect berries.

Just when a race begian to develop, along came huge Wraith hive ships to cull the herd before becoming dormant until the next time they needed to feed.

Indeed, whenever animal owners challenged the legality of the contiguous cull, MAFF found some way to back down.

Stop the seal cull In the last issue of The Newspaper we published an article about the annual cull of young seals in Canada.

The same comments apply to cull ewes not being allowed into the food chain.

In general, cull ewes would not go into the food chain.

I'm still having some birds come up with stubs even tho I cull everything that even hints at leg feathering.

Many areas of Eastern England already have to cull hares by shooting.

This method also hearkens back nicely to the way ancient healers would sip the dewdrops of flowers to cull their precious benefits.

To protect the Scottish red squirrel, a mass cull in excess of the original planned cull has been suggested.

Most pundits seem to forecast a cull of about 20.

For the salmon and sea trout angler there is simply no case for opposing a cull.

But Mick Cull (Sheffield) said it was untrue to suggest otherwise -- branches got all the help they needed.

Also with the expected lifting of the Over Thirty Month Scheme, the fleshier cross-bred cull cows should be worth more.

We are not, however, prepared to agree to exempt hefted sheep from the 3km sheep cull.

With reactive it is very different in that what triggers a reactive cull is a breakdown.

Under the new ruling, the number of executions barely reached four figures - a selective cull of the leading insurgents.

This year the government badger cull starts in May.

Likewise, the cull policy which Nick Brown had announced seemed Draconian at first.

Where it proves impractical to test cull animals a full herd test must be carried out annually.

Mr Flett added that a seal cull would also damage tourism to the isles.

Make sure that you cull out spoiled fruit to prevent the spoilage from transferring to other pieces.

You'll want to wash and cull your organic blueberries and drain in a sieve with a bowl underneath to catch ¼ cup of the runoff juice.

Some are websites that are staffed with editors who test different products, while others simply cull together reviews from consumers who have purchased and used the products.

Library giveaways-Libraries frequently cull books to make room for new book purchases.

Cull Annually - At least once a year, take stock of the clothing pieces in your wardrobe.

Usually there is an initial Q&A application, then a more detailed application for those who make it through the first cull, and so on.

These judges do not include the celebrity panel that is seen on the show, but rather a set of staff judges there to cull the crowd down to a reasonable number of contestants.