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scalping
Word definitions for scalping in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scalping , when used in reference to trading in securities , commodities and foreign exchange , may refer to a legitimate method of arbitrage of small price gaps created by the bid-ask spread . a fraudulent form of market manipulation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scalp \Scalp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scalped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scalping .] To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of. (Surg.) To remove the skin of. We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. --J. S. Wells. (Milling) To brush the hairs ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The action by which someone is scalped. 2 A fraudulent form of market manipulation in which a person buys shares immediately before recommending the shares to others, thus driving the price up vb. (present participle of scalp English)
Usage examples of scalping.
In these heaps were rifles, tomahawks, scalping knives, wampum, strips of colored beads, blankets, swords, belts, moccasins, leggins, and a great many things taken as spoil in forays on the white settlements, such is small mirrors, brushes of various kinds, boots, shoes, and other things, the whole making a vast assortment.
Their children were crying at visions of the tomahawk and scalping knife now so near.
The Indians, wild with the excitement of a great triumph and thirsting for blood, were running over the field scalping the dead, killing some of the wounded, and saving others for the worst of tortures.
As they jumped to and fro, hundreds of them, waving aloft tomahawks and scalping knives, both of which dripped red, they sang their wild chant of war and triumph.
They could see the houses in flames, and they knew that the Indian war parties were killing and scalping everywhere.
They beheld a dead warrior at every step, and at intervals were rifles, tomahawks, scalping knives, blankets, and an occasional shot pouch or powder horn.
Oncle Jazon proved to be one of the most refractory among those who demanded tomahawking and scalping as the only treatment due Long-Hair.
From his brother Cole he had learned that the Missouri bushwhackers could behave every bit as monstrously as the jay hawkers And a Southern boy called Little Archie Clements had gone around doing a fair bit of scalping in his day.
I read somewhere that they started scalping way back in the east in the sixteen hundreds.
While he was thus occupied, his infuriated followers were engaged in the murder and scalping of two English families who dwelt beyond reach of the fort.
She was blinded by the blood streaming across her face, but she lay there simulating a corpse, and in the night she made her way to the north, bleeding not only from the scalping but from her many wounds.
The Pasquinel brothers and their renegades knew how to slip through the flames, so even while Skimmerhorn was setting fire to the prairies, they rampaged up and down the Platte, burning farms and scalping the inhabitants.
He had written a very unwise article for a magazine, in which he said that he thought little of black literature because it tended to tendentiousness and that the Amerindians had shown no evidence of talent for anything except scalping and very inferior folk-craft.
Their children were crying at visions of the tomahawk and scalping knife now so near.
As they jumped to and fro, hundreds of them, waving aloft tomahawks and scalping knives, both of which dripped red, they sang their wild chant of war and triumph.