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culch

/kʌlt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
culch
IPA
/kʌlt͡ʃ/
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.

Uncountable

noun

An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.

American usage; Uncountable

noun

Junk or debris.

American usage; Uncountable

adj

Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.

American usage

verb

To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.

Etymology

Uncertain.

Usage

Inflected Forms

sculch (alternative) scultch (alternative) kulch (alternative) cultch (alternative) culches (present, singular) culching (participle, present) culched (participle, past) culched (past)

Rhymes With

mulch gulch hulch

Questions

How do you pronounce culch?
The recorded pronunciation is /kʌlt͡ʃ/.
What does culch mean?
The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
Where does culch come from?
Uncertain.

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