cull

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: Perhaps an abbreviation of cully.

1. A fool, gullible person; a dupe.

   “Follow but my counsel, and I will show you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull without any danger of the nubbing cheat.”

2. A man or boy.

   “But you don't want no dealings with that cull. A darker villain I never did see.”

verb

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

1. To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).

   “1984, cover star: JOE DALLESANDRO culled from Andy Warhol's FLESH — anonymous; sleeve notes from The Smiths' eponymous album”

2. To gather, collect.

   “[T]he yellowbanded bees, / Through half-open lattices / Coming in the scented breeze, / Fed thee, a child, lying alone, / With whitest honey in fairy gardens culled— […]”

   “Chaucer's prose Tale of Melibee […] is a dialectal homily of moral debate, exhibiting a learned store of ethical precept culled from many ancient authorities.”

3. To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
4. To kill (animals, etc).
5. To lay off in order to reduce the size of, get rid of.
6. To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.

   “back-face culling”

   “"Will cull any objects further from the camera than a given distance. When used in combination with camera frustum culling, this can be used to avoid culling nearby objects that are outside the camera frustum, but still visible in reflections. It is also useful to cull small objects far from the camera."”