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scull ~ skull
[‘scull’ rhymes with “skull” – i.e. the letter ‘c’ in ‘scull’ has a ‘k’ sound in it]
a scull, a rowing boat
“Scull”, as a noun — for the right pronunciation, please click here, is ‘a small boat made of any light material for only one person, usually used in boat races; one of a pair of oars; a long pole with a flat end used for moving a boat on water’; as a verb, it is ‘to move a small boat with oars’,
e.g.
Some teenagers pushed their sculls into the lake and sculled away energetically.
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a human skull
“Skull” (noun — for the right pronunciation, please click here) is ‘the bones (the bone part of a head) of a person’s or an animal’s head, without skin and flesh’,
e.g.
By studying the size and shape of a person’s skull, anthropologists can find out the origin, race and the time that person belonged to.
A lunatic in our locality killed several people bashing their skulls with an iron rod!
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