Scull
/skʌl/noun
A single-oared boat or the act of rowing a boat with a pair of oars, or a small shallow dish used in cooking.
Did you know?The rowing sense of scull is tied to a nautical term for using oars in a specific way, while the dish sense comes from a completely separate word, so the spelling masks two different histories.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
scylle
“a shallow bowl or dish”
Middle English
ME
sculle
“a shallow vessel or dish”
17th Century
English
scull
“to propel a boat with a single oar or with a pair of oars”
Modern English
English
scull
“a boat propelled by sculling, or the act of rowing in that manner”