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A boat; a cockboat. See Sculler.

A boat rowed by one man with two sculls, or short oars. [R.] Dryden.

A place where dishes, kettles, and culinary utensils, are cleaned and kept; also, a room attached to the kitchen, where the coarse work is done; a back kitchen.

t who cleans pots and kettles, and does other menial services in the kitchen. The meanest scullion that followed his camp. South.

Like a scullion; base. [Obs.] Milton.

The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the…

Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass. The very scullion who cleans the brasses. Hopkinson.

A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. "Away, base cullions." Shak.

ontal plane; -- said of oars. The feathering oar returns the gleam. Tickell. Stopping his sculls in the air to feather accurately. Macmillan's Mag.

A clinkerbuit, narrow boat for sculling. [Eng.]

An under servant for the kitchen; a scullion; a cook's errand boy. [Obs.] Halliwell.

One who cleans pots; a scullion. [Slang, U. S.]

Bald. [Obs.] "With scull all raw." Spencer

A sort of oar. See Scull. Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones.

rp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.