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sculping

[ skuhl-ping ]

noun

Newfoundland.
  1. the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sculping1

1810–20; sculp the skin of a seal with the blubber attached (perhaps a convergence of Irish 𲹱ó layer of flesh, slice, scealp, scealb slice, fragment, splinter, with English scalp ) + -ing 1
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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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