culling vbl n See CULL v. Comb culling board, ~ table: plank, or wooden table, on which dried and salted cod-fish is placed for sorting and grading; cp TALLY¹ n: TALLY BOARD.
   1890 BAYLY 27 Great 'drays' of dry cod are being unloaded, and put in 'yaffels' on to the culling tables, where each fish is carefully examined, passed thence to hand-barrows, and next to the scales. [1929] 1933 GREENLEAF (ed) 304 "The Merchants of Fogo": Let you go down to the staple room, and there you will see fun. / When he stands to the culling board, his neighbours do him shun; / When he stands to the culling board, he'll say it is no use, / And when they go to bring back the fish, gets nothing but abuse. T 43-64 When you go to ship your fish, there'd be a cullin board put out, and a culler to cull the fish for the firm. 1966 SCAMMELL 84 The old man was flipping fish into the different grade piles with expert wrist, at the same time keeping up a steady flow of conversation with the owner who stood at the culling board, catching the yaffels thrown to him by the men in the boat and putting them on the board back up at the speed that the culler could judge and grade them. T 394-67 They'd go down to the culling board and they'd put that thumb on un and press and tip him a little bit and see if he was sunburned. C 75-142 Culling board. A four-legged table, approximately eight [feet] long, ten inches wide and four feet high, with markings on it in various lengths, for culling dried fish.

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