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sculping
[ skuhl-ping ]
noun
Newfoundland.
- the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
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I believe that I stared at him very much, for he said to me— “‘What are you gaping at, you young sculping?
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All hands was out on the ice while daylight lasted, clubbing seals, gathering the carcasses into pans, sculping, then towing the hides aboard to salt 'em down.
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I don't mean that he lives by sculping.
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Then followed the "sculping," or skinning, which was despatched with marvellous rapidity.
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O’Brien, the master’s mate, called me a young sculping, a word I had never heard before.
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