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scalping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scalping \Scalp"ing\ (sk[a^]lp"[i^]ng), a. & n. from Scalp.
Scalping iron (Surg.), an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory.
Scalping knife, a knife used by North American Indians in scalping.
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.
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(Surg.) To remove the skin of.
We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
--J. S. Wells. (Milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
--Knight.
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)
Wikipedia
Scalping is the act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp, with hair attached, from the head of an enemy as a trophy. Scalp-taking is considered part of the broader cultural practice of the taking and display of human body parts as trophies, and may have developed as an alternative to the taking of human heads, for scalps were easier to take, transport, and preserve for subsequent display. Scalping independently developed in various cultures in both the Old and New Worlds.
Scalping is the practice of removing the scalp of a defeated enemy as a trophy.
Scalping may also refer to:
- Scalping (trading), in trading securities and commodities either a fraudulent form of market manipulation or a legitimate form of arbitrage
- Flavor scalping, the loss of flavor in a packaged item generally due to its packaging
- Tarmac scalpings, gravel scraped off a road when the road is scarified before a new surface is laid
- Ticket resale, the resale of tickets to a public event such as a concert or sporting event
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
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.