1 : to select from a group : choose culled the best passages from the poet's work Damaged fruits are culled before the produce is shipped.

How do you use culled in a sentence?

Samples were taken from all the deer culled within the Forest District. Every day the numbers change, so the day these figures were culled , they were already out-of-date. Most of the facts about Turner's early life are culled , often directly, from Turner's own autobiographical writings.

What does it mean when something is culled?

to choose or gather the best or required examples. to take out (an animal, esp an inferior one) from a herd. to reduce the size of (a herd or flock) by killing a proportion of its members.