[cull] vt [ME, fr. MF cuillir, fr. L colligere to bind together--more at collect] (13c) 1: to select from a group: choose "~ed the best passages from the poet's work"
2: to identify and remove the culls from -- cull.er n
[2]cull n (1809): something rejected esp. as being inferior or worthless "how to separate good-looking pecans from ~s --Washington Post"