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.
Derivatives:
culler
Etymology: ME f. OF coillier etc. ult. f. L colligere COLLECT(1)