culching, cultching, vbl. n.
(ˈkʌltʃɪŋ)
[f. culch, cultch.]
The practice of strewing an oyster-bed with culch. Also attrib.
| 1894 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 5/3 A Burnham cultching boat. 1904 Nature 17 Mar. 466/1 The process known as ‘culching’, that is, scattering the floor of the bed with rock, loose coral, and so on, to afford the necessary anchorage for the byssus of the young oyster. |