Which preposition to use with sculls
" Mike now took his seat on a board that lay across the gunwale of the skiff at a most inconvenient height, placed two sculls in the water, one of which was six inches longer than the other, made a desperate effort, and got his craft fairly afloat.
There's another: why might not that bee the Scull of of a Lawyer?
Sculling on the Schuylkill.
[in] for their pleasure, or as they would do a sculler for being next at hand.
There was no tiller, but Ken found a broken scull at the bottom of the boat with which he contrived to steer.
" She scrambled aft, and unshipping the dinghy, came sculling towards me across the intervening water.
But every now and then a swell rolled in high enough to have cracked our sculls against the top, and out again deep enough to have staved the boat against the rocks.
He rowed the skiff in which the captain and his wife had embarked, with his own hands; and, previously to starting, he had selected the best sculls from the other boats, had fitted his twhart with the closest attention to his own ease, and had placed a stretcher for his feet, with an intelligence and knowledge of mechanics, that would have done credit to a Whitehall waterman.
" They were in the boat now, and Jack was sending it forward by lusty lunges against every protruding object he could get a stroke at; when these failed he managed to scull after a fashion.