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sculping

• 1 n. the process of removing the skin and adhering fat from a seal. See also sculp, n. and v.

  See also: sculp ((n.))   sculp ((v.))  

  • 1883  This process is called "sculping"--a corruption, no doubt, of scalping

• 2 n. a similar process in whaling.

  • 1894  We were taken over to the oil house, where was moored a large whale, sixty-nine feet long, and already undergoing the process of sculping.
  • 1897  On the approach of the vessel, the whale is made fast to her side, tail forward, so that the large open mouth will not fill with water in case of the advance of the ship, and the work of sculping is begun. This is done under the superintendence of an official called "the Inspectioneer."