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scalp ((v.))
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v.
of Indians, cut off a victim's scalp (def. 1a).
See: scalp ((n.))(def. 1a)
Quotations
1749
An Indian who kills an Eskemaux scalps him; then takes and rounds a bit of willow, sowing the Scalp to it, and hangs one or two . . . on a Stick at the End of his Canoe. . . .
1861
Some were for scalping us--others for horse-whipping us; but the good old chief would not allow us to be molested at all.
1930
[They] used every means available to keep the Indians from scalping their victims. . . .
2v. — Esp. Nfld