Culler

Also 5 culyur, 6 cullyar. [f. CULL v.¹ + -ER¹. In 2 the suffix was perh. -ARD.]

  1.  One who culls, selects or gathers.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 86. A Culyur, collector.

1611.  Cotgr., Cueilleur … a picker, chuser, or culler.

1809.  Syd. Smith, Ess., Wks. 1867, I. 178. A mere culler of simples.

1883.  E. Pennell-Elmhirst, Cream Leicestersh., 255. The busiest of cullers drained dry of even his November stories.

  † 2.  Farming. (See quots.) Cf. CULL sb.³ 2.

1538.  Elyot, Bibl., Reieculæ, uel reijculæ oues, sheepe drawen out of the folde for aege or syckenesse, kebbers, crones, or cullyars.

1617.  Minsheu, Duct. Ling., Cullers.

1721.  Bailey, Cullers, the worst sort of sheep, or those which are left of a flock when the best are picked out. C[ountry Word.]

  Culler, obs. form of COLOUR.