单词 | scalper |
释义 | scalperscaupern.1ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 1. One (esp. an American Indian) who removes scalps. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. 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