SCULL (the same word as "

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• SKULL

skull," cf. Swed. skill,

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• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)
• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)

basin, hufvud-skal, skull of the

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• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head)  , a light oar with blade more concave than the ordinary racing oar and with shorter helm, thus allowing the user to hold one in each hand . " Sculling" is therefore the propulsion of a boat by one person with a pair of sculls . The word is also applied to the propulsion of a boat by one scull worked over the stern, the blade being swept through the water from side to side, turning diagonally at each stroke; the sculler usually stands . The principles of sculling with a pair of sculls are the same as those of rowing (q.v.) . For the type of boat used in racing see BOAT . The Wingfield Sculls, a race which forms the English Amateur championship, was instituted in 1830 . It is rowed from Putney to Mortlake . The Diamond Challenge Sculls, instituted in 1844, are rowed for at Henley Regatta . The earliest professional championship sculling rate was rowed on the Thames in 1831 . Since 1876, when an Australian (E . Trickett, of Sydney) beat J . H .

Sadler, the professional championship of the world has been held by Australians or Canadians; the principal champions have been E . Hanlan (Toronto), 188o-1884, W . Beach (New South Wales), 1884–1887; other names are H . E . Searle, J . Stanbury, G . Towns and R . Arnst (New Zealand) . Most of the races have been rowed on the Paramatta river . In August 1910 the race was rowed on the Zambezi between E . Barry of England and Arnst, the latter winning .