Scalping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SCALPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• take the scalp of (an enemy)
• punish severely
• resell (shares or tickets) at a large or quick profit
NOUN:
• the act of scalping
• the skin covering the head, excluding the face
• used with reference to the defeat of an opponent
• a bare rock projecting above surrounding water or vegetation.
• process in which the top portion of a metal ingot is machined away before use
• the scalp with the hair belonging to it, cut or torn away from an enemy's head as a battle trophy, a former practice among American Indians.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove an upper part from
• a. & n. from Scalp.

Words related to SCALPING

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Words that contain SCALPING

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How to use SCALPING in a sentence

• HARRY PALMER to reopen Tammany with a grand scalping scene in which the TWEED tribe of Indians will appear in aboriginal costume.
• It was time, for as I glanced back, I saw the Indians rushing from the wood, cutting down and scalping the last of the fugitives.
• He seized me by the hair, and I actually rejoiced, for I knew that the pain of scalping would make me oblivious of all else.
• The men tore off the tough hide from their pork, as if they were Indians scalping Christians.
• There lay the Indian, precisely as he had fallen, no warrior having interposed to save him from the scalping- knife.
• Each had a gun, a shot-bag and powder horn, a scalping knife and a war club, and was painted with vermilion lines on the face.
• They had not the satisfaction of scalping any of our men save one or two straglers, whom they killed before the engagement.
• The latter unceasingly incited the Indians to ravage the frontier with torch and scalping knife.
• Every man carried a small-bore rifle, a tomahawk, and a scalping knife.
• Direful tales of the tomahawk and scalping knife were recounted by the older children.
• They walked in single file, each with his tomahawk in one hand, and scalping knife in the other.
• The scalping knife was at length passed across his throat, and thus ended the scene.
• The adventurer was stuffing his pipe with rank Indian tobacco, which he pared from a plug with a scalping knife.
• This revenge will quench his cruel thirst for blood quite as effectually as if he had the satisfaction of scalping the perpetrator of his real or supposed injury.
• The idea of scalping a man! For a whole minute she lost the power of speech.
• They waged it in their usual cruel manner, murdering and scalping men, women, and children, indiscriminately, burning their houses, and desolating the country.
• We waked to find the scalping knives at our throats, and the death scream of children in our ears.
• A piece of wood was laid across his lap, and he was chopping rank tobacco with a scalping knife.
• The Canadians were carrying on guerilla warfare, firing on the British from the woods and Fraser was shocked at the horrid practise of scalping.
• But instead of making a complete job of it, a thick fringe of hair which resembled a misplaced scalping tuft was left for decorative purposes, just above the forehead.
• While he was thus occupied, his infuriated followers were engaged in the murder and scalping of two English families who dwelt beyond reach of the fort.
• Tom, being bald as a sand-hill, considered himself exempt from scalping parties anyway.
• Paul, went to church with a lady on his arm, sat in a front pew, and was a highly distinguished gentleman of the scalping school.
• There we miraculously escaped the scalping knife and tomahawk.
• It was therefore with inward exultation that Rod saw the project of attack dropped and Mukoki and Wabigoon proceed with their short task of scalping the seven wolves.
• He was dressed in the richest Indian costume, and his scalping knife and beaded moccasins glittered in the sunshine.
• I made up my mind it was all over but the scalping.
• Most significant of all was the long semicircular red line round the brow, where the scalping knife had plainly passed.
• They seized the shrieking women and children and bore them off to the woods, killing and scalping them as they ran.
• Their borders would now be safe, but for occasional scalping parties.
• Near the main branch of the Susquehanna they surprised forty Delawares, on a scalping expedition against the British settlements, and made prisoners of the entire party.

Similar words containing SCALP without suffix ing

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