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ˈscalping-knife
[scalping vbl. n.2]
A knife such as that used by the North American Indians in scalping their enemies.
1759Johnson Idler No. 40 ⁋7 A..Mohawk Indian warrior,..with his scalping-knife, tom-ax and all other implements of war! 1825Macaulay Ess., Milton (1843) I. 8 The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping-knife while he shouts his death-song. 1867Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xxii. (1875) 328 They had no motive for exchanging the comforts of home..for..the scalping-knives of the Iroquois.
b. fig. and allusively.
1764Churchill Gotham i. 5 Whilst her brave rage, not satisfied with life, Rising in blood, adopts the Scalping-Knife. 1831Scott Ct. Rob. Introd. Addr. ⁋37 Peter Pattison's last labours shall now go down to posterity unscathed by the scalping-knife of alteration. |