v. & n.
v.tr. 1 select, choose, or gather from a large quantity or amount (knowledge culled from books). 2 pick or gather (flowers, fruit, etc.). 3 select (animals) according to quality, esp. poor surplus specimens for killing.
n. 1 an act of culling. 2 an animal or animals culled. culler
[ ME f. OF coillier etc. ult. f. L colligere COLLECT(1) ]