skulling

skulling

1. present participle of skull
   • Sex Jungle (narrated in Perversion for Profit, 1965)

     Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.

skulling (plural skullings)

1. The act of determining the age of a young bird by measuring the degree of ossification of its skull.

• http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/manual/glossary.htm