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单词 scalping
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scalpingn.1

Etymology: < scalp v.1 + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscalping.
In †scalping iron = scalper n.1 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > rasps or scrapers
raspatory?a1425
rougine?a1425
scalping1552
scalper1656
desquamatory1668
lenticular instrument1672
scalprum1688
xyster1688
radula1706
lenticular1739
lenticular knife1846
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Scalping yron for a surgeon, scalpellum, scalprum. [Also in later dictionaries.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

scalpingn.2

Etymology: < scalp v.2 + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscalping.
1.
a. Surgery. The laying bare of the bone of the skull by cutting and raising the scalp.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on the skull
terebrationc1400
trepanationc1400
trepanning1670
scalping1739
trephining1862
trephination1874
mastoidectomy1898
trephine1958
1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. xxvii. 139 For it never happens that we inquire for a Fracture of the Scull by scalping, but that the Scalp itself is contus'd.
1787 Med. Communications 2 153 Which he had experienced before the scalping and trepanning.
1897 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
b. The tearing off of the scalp of an enemy.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > scalping
scalping1747
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > scalping
scalping1747
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 43/1 Scalping is cutting the skin from the eyebrows round the head and peeling it off.
1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xxiv. 405 He taunted Burgoyne..with the murders and scalpings by the Indians in his employ.
2. In technical and slang uses (see the verb).
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [noun] > removal or taking away > of the top part
heading1552
scalping1871
1871 R. Cowie Shetland viii. 158 in Eng. Dial. Dict. The ruinous process of ‘scalping’, or removing the turf of the commons for manuring the farms.
1882 Nation 5 Oct. 276 (Cent. Dict.) A corporation like the Pennsylvania Railroad must protect itself against loss through scalping.
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 782/2 Scalping (Milling), brushing the hair or fuzz from the ends of wheat grain to prevent its getting into the flour.
1894 Standard 3 May 7/1 (Farmer) A scalping of the Stock at the expense of the genuine investor.
1901 Dundee Advertiser 23 Apr. 4 Numbers of crofter grazings have been spoiled..by ‘scalping’, irregular peat cutting,..and careless heather burning.
1922 Jrnl. Inst. Metals 28 881 Rolling data for brass and bronze, scalping, annealing, and pickling.
1949 J. E. Garside Process & Physical Metall. viii. 123 It is becoming general practice in the case of non-ferrous alloys to subject slabs and billets to a surface machining operation known as ‘scalping’ prior to cold-rolling.
1960 New Scientist 19 May 1269/2 The machine..is used for scalping. By scalping, the quarryman means separating the dirt from the mine output before the stones are passed into the crusher.
1967 Gloss. Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 25 Scalpings, hard material extracted as being unsuitable for crushing and screening.
1975 Evening Post (Bristol) 19 Feb. 1/4 The firm plan to protect Portway and services underneath from impact, possibly with a blanket of steel plating topped by scalping and sand.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as scalping act, scalping party; figurative in scalping measure.
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1750 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass (1875) 381 Our Men will not venture out after the Enemy on any Scalping Act whatsoever.
1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 454 (note) They have detached their principal force into many scalping parties.
1777 Fox in Hansard's Parl. Hist. (1814) XIX. 523 The most violent, scalping, tomahawk measures.
1883 K. Neftel Rep. Flour-milling (10th Census U.S.) 9 The resultant ‘chop’ is separated into..flour, middlings, and bran, by means of bolts technically called ‘scalping-reels’.
C2.
scalping-machine n. (see quot. 1884).
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1884 Bath Herald 27 Dec. 6/5 A ‘scalping’ machine..separates the ‘middlings’ from the larger pieces of wheat.
scalping-tuft n. a scalp-lock.
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair of head > lock or locks > [noun]
lockeOE
forelockc1000
hair-lockc1000
earlockOE
foretopc1290
tressc1290
lachterc1375
fuke1483
sidelock1530
proudfallc1540
widow's locka1543
folding1552
fore-bush1591
flake1592
witch knot1598
tuft1603
French lock1614
head-lock1642
witch-lock1682
rat's tail1706
side-curl1749
scalp knot1805
rat-tail1823
straggler1825
scalping-tuft1826
scalp-lock1827
aggravator1835
soap-lock1840
payess1845
stringleta1852
list1859
tresslet1882
drake's tail1938
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. iii. 30 The well known and chivalrous scalping tuft.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

scalpingn.3

Etymology: ? < scalp n.1 + -ing suffix1.
Obsolete.
(See quot. 1747.)
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > sand
sand-bed?a1500
scalping1747
sand1849
1747 M. Catesby in Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 126 Mr. Joice, in digging the Foundation of an House..found, at the Depth of 6 Feet, a Part of a Jaw-bone..; then one Foot of Scalping or Sand-bed; then eighteen Inches of Stone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

scalpingadj.

Etymology: < scalp v.2 + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscalping.
That scalps (in various senses).
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [adjective] > scalping
scalping1782
the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > scalping
scalping1782
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 75 A scalping Indian.
1903 Times 3 Mar. 9/2 Chicago, March 2. Wheat... Scalping traders were moderate buyers.
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