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# scullion

«scullion» in Mova's school dictionary: **A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (scullions)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) A servant in a kitchen who scrubs pots and floors and does the dirtiest jobs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a low kitchen worker in old stories, often ordered about by the cooks

### examples

- The cooks and scullions ran after the bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#x1)
- The scullion stopped just as he was about to wring the bird's neck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#x2)
- He began as an under-scullion and rose to be a head cook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scullion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scullion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.