scalping-knifen.
a. A knife such as that used by the North American Indians in scalping their enemies.
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1759 S. Johnson Idler 20 Jan. 17 A..Mohawk Indian Warrior..with his scalping knife, Tom-ax, and all other implements of war.
1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 309 The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping-knife while he shouts his death-song.
1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xxii. 328 These had no motive for exchanging the comforts of home..for..the scalping-knives of the Iroquois.
b. figurative and allusively.
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1764 C. Churchill Gotham i. 5 Whilst her brave rage, not satisfied with life, Rising in blood, adopts the Scalping-Knife.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert Introd. p. xli, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. I Peter Pattison's last labours shall now go down to posterity unscathed by the scalping-knife of alteration.
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