Usually means: Select and remove inferior members.
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  1. cull: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cull: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cull: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cull: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cull: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cull, cull: Wordnik
  7. cull: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cull, cull: Wiktionary
  9. cull: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cull: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cull: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cull, cull: Dictionary.com
  13. cull: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cull: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cull: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cull: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cull: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cull: Rhymezone
  19. Cull: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cull: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cull: Free Dictionary
  22. cull: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cull, cull: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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  25. Cull: World Wide Words
  26. cull: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cull: Numismatic Dictionary
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. cull: Legal dictionary

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  1. cull: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. cull: Medical dictionary

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  1. cull: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cull, cull: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cull: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  3. cull: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
verb:  To gather, collect.
verb:  To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
verb:  (nonstandard, euphemistic) To kill (animals etc).
verb:  To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
verb:  (computer graphics) To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
noun:  A selection.
noun:  An organized killing of selected animals.
noun:  (agriculture) An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
noun:  (seafood industry) A lobster having only one claw.
noun:  A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
noun:  (slang, dialectal) A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
noun:  A surname.

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