cull

Plural: culls

Noun

the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality
A selection.
An organized killing of selected animals.
An individual animal selected to be killed, or item of produce to be discarded.
A lobster having only one claw.
A piece unfit for inclusion within a larger group; an inferior specimen.
A fool, gullible person; a dupe.
A man or boy.

Verb

Verb Forms: culled, culling, culls

To select, choose, or gather from a group.
remove something that has been rejected
- "cull the sick members of the herd"
look for and gather
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
To gather, collect.
To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
To kill (animals etc).
To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.

Examples

back-face culling
The Scrabble master would CULL the best tiles from the bag, often leaving weaker letters for me.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English cullen, cuilen, coilen, from Old French cuillir (“collect, gather, select”), from Latin colligō (“gather together”). Doublet of coil.

Synonyms

pick, pluck, reject

Scrabble Score: 6

cull: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
cull: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cull: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

cull: valid Words With Friends Word