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scull ~ skull
[‘scull’ rhymes with “skull” – i.e. the letter ‘c’ in 'scull' has a ‘k’ sound in it]
“Scull”, as a noun, is ‘a small boat made of any light material for only one person, usually used in boat races; one of a pair of oars; a long pole with a flat end used for moving a boat on water’; as a verb, it is ‘to move a small boat with oars’,
a scull
e.g.
Some teenagers pushed their sculls into the lake and sculled away energetically.
{‘Scullery’, with plural form ‘sculleries’, is a room next to the kitchen in a large house where washing and washing-up are done, i.e. washing clothes and cleaning the kitchen utensils.}
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“Skull” (noun) is ‘the bones (the bone part of a head) of a person’s or an animal’s head, without skin and flesh’,
a human skull
e.g.
By studying the size and shape of a person’s skull, anthropologists can find out the origin, race and the time that person belonged to.
A lunatic in our locality killed several people bashing their skulls with an iron rod!
a skull & cross-bones, a common danger sign
[“Skull and cross bones” is a symbol used to indicate danger or caution.]
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