The afternoon sun was getting low as the Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, and not paying much attention to Mole.
This term is used interchangebly when referring to one of the oars used in a sculling shell, the shell itself or to the act of rowing a sculling shell Sculling , where each sculler moves two oars, one with each hand
1 one of two short oars worked from side to side over the stern of a boat as a means of propulsion 2 a race where rowers work with two oars, one in each hand
a racing shell propelled by one or two oarsmen pulling two oars one of a pair of short-handled oars a long-handled oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward propel with sculls; "scull the boat