culch

• sculch, scultch, kulch, cultch

culch (uncountable)

1. 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.
2. (US, New England, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
3. (US, New England, Maine) Junk or debris.

culch (not comparable)

1. (US, New England, Maine) Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.

culch (third-person singular simple present culches, present participle culching, simple past and past participle culched)

1. To 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.