Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds. · An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use. · Junk or debris.
adj
Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.
Uncertain.
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