or cull, culing, culling, verb and verbal subs. (thieves’).—To purloin from the seats of carriages; the act of snatching handbags and other impedimenta therefrom. [Either an abbreviation and corruption of RETICULE, or from CULL, to gather.]
1857. SNOWDEN, Magistrates Assistant, 3 ed., p. 444. Snatching reticules from a carriage—CULING.
