1Each of a pair of small oars used by a single rower.

1. 1.1 An oar placed over the stern of a boat to propel it by a side to side motion, reversing the blade at each turn.
   （船的）尾橹
   Synonyms

   oar, scull, sweep, blade, spoon, spade
2. 1.2 A light, narrow boat propelled with a scull or a pair of sculls.
   划桨（或摇橹）小艇
   their current training programme involves two outings a day at the weekend in their single sculls

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The unique feature of this concept is that the eight and the quadruple sculls will be raced by mixed crews made up of men and women.
   • This year he trained the light scull world champion Victoria Dimitrova as well as Neikova.
   • The two friends had gone for a light row and were turning the double scull boat opposite the boat slip at the Rowing Club when Kieran became suddenly ill.
   • He has supported his wife, Sonia, in her successful quest to qualify a single sculls boat for the Athens Olympics.
   • What is next when you're the fastest man in the world in a single scull?
   • A 3,000-meter rowing course with submersible lane markers is laid out on the Lower Otay Lake to accommodate athletes training in sweeps and sculls.
   • The first event was raced in a fixed seat single scull for rowers who are unable to use their legs.
   • After we had all got ourselves into our lovely smelling kit, our training cox Rachel gave a talk about safety and then taught us how to pick up an eight scull boat and put it in the river.
   • The vice-president of the club, Bhavani Shankar, said the club had been changing its style of boat race training from traditional boats to sculls.
   • By concentrating on the sculls and not breathing, the sculls become faster with more power output.
3. 1.3sculls A race between boats in which each participant uses a pair of oars.
   单人双桨赛艇比赛
   he competed for the cross-country team and later concentrated on single sculls

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Anne Homa won women's S1 single sculls and Anna Mahlamaki won women's novice sculls in her first race in a sculling boat despite clipping the bank a few times.
   • Britain's women's quadruple sculls hopefuls have a week to focus on gold after qualifying with ease for next Sunday's final.
   • In the women's single sculls, the heats were won by Yoon Hui Lee and Chien Ju Chiang.
   • In modern terms this is called double sculls, where each rower has two oars apiece.
   • Sarah Birch, who was a World Champion in 2001 and fifth in the women's lightweight pair, switches to the lightweight women's quadruple sculls.
   • One of the day's most dramatic races came in the final of the women's quadruple sculls.
   • Nikree is concentrating on the double sculls to be raced tomorrow, and Yung did well despite nursing a sprained ankle which she sustained earlier this week.
   • The event, sponsored by Henri Lloyd, also includes women's and men's sculls, novice races and dragon boat racing.
   • The main events finished on the predicted lines as the host's teams made it to all the finals of the four events - single and double sculls, coxswainless pairs and coxed fours.
   • First up in the breezy but not overwhelmingly difficult conditions yesterday was Ian Lawson, in the men's single sculls.
   • Also racing in today's finals will be Scotland's Olympic silver medallist Katherine Grainger, who along with her Marlow and Leander crewmates, won the women's quadruple sculls yesterday.
   • As a rower on the 2000 U.S. Olympic team, Nuzum managed an eighth-place finish in the heavyweight double sculls in the Sydney Games.
   • Andrea Finn was second along with three members of other clubs, including Sydney Olympics silver medallist Guin Batten in the women's quadruple scull.
   • The other qualifiers yesterday were the men's quadruple sculls.
   • This meant that the junior men's and junior women's quadruple sculls, together with three final races in the Japan Cup, were not held.
   • She followed that with World Cup gold in the women's quadruple scull in Poznan and a silver in the same boat in Munich with substitute Sarah Winckless on board.
   • All three heavyweight women's crews won medals: two silvers, for the women's pair and the quadruple sculls, bronze for the double scull.

1Propel a boat with sculls.

1. 1.1with object and adverbial of direction Transport (someone) in a boat propelled with sculls.
   划船渡人
   she had to be sculled through the floods
2. 1.2no object, with adverbial of direction (of an aquatic animal) propel itself with fins or flippers.
   （水生动物）摇鳍划水前进
   the limbs were modified into efficient paddles, perfectly adapted for sculling through the water

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A green turtle sculled towards us, stopping only a metre away.

1A large group of fish which has migrated from the open sea to inshore waters.

1. 1.1 The annual migration of fish from the open sea to inshore waters.
   〈加〉从外洋游到近海的大鱼群