culch

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1. uncountableThe rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
2. MaineUSuncountableAn accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
3. MaineUSuncountableJunk or debris.

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1. MaineUSnot comparableLocation where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.

present singular third person culches · participle present culching · participle past culched · past culched · alternative sculch · alternative scultch · alternative kulch · alternative cultch

1. To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.