单词 | scalping |
释义 | scalpingn.1 In †scalping iron = scalper n.1 1. ΘΚΠ 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 1. a. Surgery. The laying bare of the bone of the skull by cutting and raising the scalp. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 Obsolete. (See quot. 1747.) ΘΚΠ 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. That scalps (in various senses). ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11552n.21739n.31747adj.1782 |
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