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单词 scalper
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scalperscaupern.1

Brit. /ˈskalpə/, /ˈskɔːpə/, U.S. /ˈskælpər/
Etymology: Partly < Latin scalper, by-form of scalprum n., partly < scalp v.1 + -er suffix1.
1. Surgery. = scalprum n. 1. Obsolete.
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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
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Scalper or Scalping Iron (scalprum), a Surgeons Instrument, to scrape or take away corrupt flesh from the bones; a Lance to let blood with.
2. Engraving. A kind of graver used for hollowing out the bottom of sunken designs.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools
pouncer1552
graving tool1591
pounce1598
puncheon1659
burin1662
eschoppe1662
graver1662
needle1662
point1662
style1662
sculpter1680
scalper1688
small chisel1749
roulette1806
engraver1821
dry-point1837
scooper1837
stylet1853
tint-tool1869
diamond-point1874
spit-sticker1909
bull-sticker1933
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 308/1 The Scalper, is a kind of Graver with a flat point; its use is to clear the bottoms of broad Letters or Escochions sunk into the Metal.
1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing vii. 377 A large square tool, called a scawper.
1855 F. B. Palliser tr. J. Labarte Handbk. Arts Middle Ages & Renaissance iv. 122 With scalpers he tooled or hollowed out all the spaces.
1869 Eng. Mech. 10 Dec. 298/3 Scaupers are used for cutting out the white parts of the block.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scalpern.2

Brit. /ˈskalpə/, U.S. /ˈskælpər/
Etymology: < scalp v.2 + -er suffix1.
1. One (esp. an American Indian) who removes scalps.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > scalping > person
scalper1760
1760 S. Niles in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1837) 3rd Ser. VI. 174 This reminds me of an account we had of a notable old scalper among [the Indians].
1795 S. T. Coleridge Conciones ad Populum 45 Did not this employment of merciless Scalpers rouse the indignation of Britons?
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vi. 226 Scalpers and ax-men rush from Eerie's shore.
1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Mar. 617/2 This treacherous scalper of birds.
figurative.1904 Sat. Rev. 29 Oct. 536 The scalpers of the yellow press had not time to put on their war-paint.
2.
a. U.S. slang. One who buys and sells at a profit, but at a price lower than the official one, unused portions of long-distance railway tickets.
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1875 Chicago Tribune 8 Dec. 12/3 The new town grew up to be..the great commercial centre of rail-road ‘scalpers’.
1882 Nation 5 Oct. 276 (Cent. Dict.) The eternal quarrel between railroads and scalpers.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 51 I went round to all the railroad ticket agents, called scalpers, in the city, and at last decided to go down as far as Topeka in Kansas, as that was the cheapest journey I could pick out for the distance.
b. Stock Market. One who sells stock at lower than the offical rates.
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1886 Harper's Mag. July 213/2 The ‘Pit’ is the scalper's delight.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Oct. 12/1 ‘Old Hutch,’ by which title B. P. Hutchinson has been known on the Chicago Board of Trade for years as the champion scalper and speculator.
1891 Times 8 Oct. 11/1 Late trading was dull, but steady, on moderate covering by ‘scalpers’.
c. slang (originally U.S.). A speculator who obtains tickets for a popular entertainment and sells them for more than their face price.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in tickets
scalper1869
ticket-scalper1875
ticket broker1902
reventa1932
ticket tout1950
tout1959
1869 Harper's Mag. Sept. 623/2 Where theatres are all the run, And bloody scalpers come to trade.
1948 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Nov. 18/2 Since these 60-cent tickets are sold, or supposed to be sold, only to students, the question is how the scalpers obtained them.
1969 Truth (Melbourne) 12 July 24/7 I'm sure scalpers wouldn't buy lottery tickets.
1977 Rolling Stone 16 June 12/2 The Palladium shows sold out in a few hours and scalpers have been getting up to $75 per ticket.
1978 G. Vidal Kalki vi. 137 One-third of the tickets for the rally..are now in the hands of scalpers who are selling the most desirable seats..for as high as one thousand dollars a-piece!
d. U.S. (See quots.)
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in cattle
cattle-dealer1824
Saldanier1838
snipper1869
outrider1872
scalper1930
1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 292 So soon as an incoming train is announced nearing the stock yards, the hurrying tramps of solicitors, called ‘Scalpers’, may be heard hustling toward the unloading platform. If there is a shipper on the train whose stock is not consigned, they..[present] the business cards of the commission firms which have the Scalpers employed.
1930 Amer. Speech X. 271/2 Scalper, one who buys feeder cattle and resells to farmers and feeders at a profit. A speculator.
3. A scalping-knife. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of
anlacec1300
misericord1324
bodkin1386
baselardc1390
popperc1390
wood-knife1426
spudc1440
pavade1477
bistoury1490
skene1527
dudgeon1548
sword dagger1567
machete1575
kris1589
bum dagger1596
stillado1607
stiletto1611
steelet1616
hanjar1621
pisaa1640
jockteleg1642
khanjar1684
bayonet1692
kuttar1696
parazonium1751
skene-ochles1754
scalping-knife1759
snick-a-snee1760
manchette1762
snickersnee1775
guard-dagger1786
boarding knife1807
scalp-knife1807
kukri1811
skene-dhu1811
parang1820
stylet1820
belt knife1831
bowie-knife1836
scalper1837
sheath-knife1837
toothpick1837
tumbok lada1839
snick-and-snee knife1843
tickler1844
bowie1846
toad-sticker1858
simi1860
scramasax1862
kinjal1863
left-hander1869
main gauche1869
aikuchi1875
tanto1885
toad-stabber1885
cinquedea1897
trench knife1898
puukko1925
panga1929
quillon dagger1950
flick-knife1957
ratchet knife1966
sai1973
ratchet1975
1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods II. xviii. 245 Captain Ralph Stacpole did..meet another Injun-savage in the woods..with gun, axe, and scalper.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs II. 297 A tussle à la Choctaw, with biting, gouging, tomahawk and scalper.
1947 B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 32 The Company is sending..100 dozen ‘common scalpers’ and 55 dozen more expensive knives for murder with style.
4. A ‘scalping’ machine: see scalp v.2 3.
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1886 W. A. Harris Techn. Dict. Fire Insurance 251 Scalpers, or Scalping Reels, the simple hexagon dressing-reels with iron shaft, iron arms, and iron rails clothed with tin or steel~wire cloth.
1886 W. A. Harris Techn. Dict. Fire Insurance 252 Wheat is partially crushed by rollers, and afterwards passed through the scalpers and the silk dressing-machines.
1950 Engineering 13 Jan. 30/1 [In flour milling] the endosperm released..and sifted out in the scalpers consists of particles of various sizes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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