sull

See also: sull'

English edit

sull (third-person singular simple present sulls, present participle sulling, simple past and past participle sulled)

(intransitive) Of an animal: to stop; to refuse to go on.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:
  The mesteño had stopped and sulled in the road with its forefeet spread and he sat looking after her.

From Old English sulh (“plough”). Compare sullow and Old High German suohili (“little plough”).

sull (plural sulls)

"sull, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“sull”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Old Norse sull, soll (“swill”), perhaps derived from the verb sulla (“to swill”), or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *swulą (“swill”); both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to wash, wash down, gulp, swallow”). Partially cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk sul (“sop”), Danish sul (“sop”). Compare also Old Norse svall (“a drunken bout, swill”), Old Norse sollr ("swill, slop for pigs" > Norwegian Nynorsk soll (“milk toast”)), English swill.

sull n (genitive singular sulls, no plural)

declension of sull