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English

Etymology

From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Middle Dutch schelpe (“shell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skælp/

Noun

scalp (plural scalps)

1. (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.

   Synonym: skull

2. The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

     By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.

   • 2014, Kaitlin Newman in Baltimore Sun, Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope

     The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.

3. (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.

4. (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
5. (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
6. (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.

   Synonym: scaup

7. (figuratively) The top; the summit.

   Synonym: summit

Derived terms

• scalped
• scalpless
• scalpy

Descendants

• ? Danish: skalp
• ? Dutch: scalp
• ? German: Skalp
• ? Hungarian: skalp
• ? Italian: scalpo
• ? Latvian: skalps
• ? Macedonian: ????? (skalp)
• ? Portuguese: escalpo
• ? Russian: ?????? (skal?p)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: ?????? (sk?lp)
• ? Swedish: skalp

Translations

Verb

scalp (third-person singular simple present scalps, present participle scalping, simple past and past participle scalped)

1. To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
   • 2001, Peter Cozzens, Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains, Stackpole Books (?ISBN), page 507:

     Next morning, the Indians attacked us and one of our hunters, George Huffman, was killed and scalped. As soon as Baldwin heard the shooting, he came to our assistance.

2. (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.

   Synonym: resell

   • 2011, Linda E. Swayne, Encyclopedia of Sports Management and Marketing, SAGE (?ISBN), page 324:

     Tickets sold online through Craigslist, eBay, and other forums, where the purchaser cannot physically see them, run a greater risk of being counterfeit—but counterfeiters have been known to scalp tickets in person outside the venue as well, […]

3. (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
   • 1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling (page 102)

     The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.

4. (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
5. To screen or sieve ore before further processing.

   Synonym: sieve

6. (surgery) To remove the skin of.
   • J. S. Wells

     We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].

7. (transitive) To remove the grass from.
8. (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
9. (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

Derived terms

• scalper
• scalping
• unscalped

Translations

Anagrams

• calps, claps, clasp

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scalp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?lp/
• Hyphenation: skalp

Noun

scalp m (plural scalpen or scalps)

1. scalp (hair-covered skin, especially as a trophy)

Derived terms

• scalperen

Romanian

Etymology

From French scalp

Noun

scalp n (plural scalpuri)

1. scalp

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?l/
  • IPA^(key): [p?i??], [p?i??]
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Homophone: peal

Etymology 1

From Middle English pelen itself from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier, both from Latin pil?, pil?re (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.

   I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
2. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

   I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.

   We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.

3. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

   I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.

4. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.

   The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.

5. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).

   The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.

Synonyms

• (remove outer covering): skin, strip
• (remove clothing): disrobe, strip

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

peel (countable and uncountable, plural peels)

1. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
2. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
3. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
4. (countable) A spatula-like device to remove bread or pizza from an oven.

Synonyms

• (skin of a fruit): rind, zest

Derived terms

• orange peel
• peel strength

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English peel, pele, from Anglo-Norman pel (compare modern French pieu), from Latin palus (“stake”). Doublet of pole.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. (obsolete) A stake.
2. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
3. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

Derived terms

• peel-house, peelhouse
• peel-tower

Etymology 3

From Old French pele (modern French pelle), from Latin p?la, from the base of plangere (“fix, plant”). Doublet of pala.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
2. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
3. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.

Translations

Etymology 4

Origin unknown.

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
2. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (curling) To play a peel shot.

Etymology 5

Named from Walter H. Peel, a noted 19th-century croquet player.

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

Etymology 6

Old French piller (“pillage”).

Verb

peel (third-person singular simple present peels, present participle peeling, simple past and past participle peeled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

Etymology 7

Noun

peel (plural peels)

1. Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”)

Etymology 8

Verb

peel

1. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
   • 1825 June 25, "My Village Bells", in The Circulator of Useful Knowledge, Literature, Amusement, and General Information number XXVI, available in, 1825, The Circulator of Useful Amusement, Literature, Science, and General Information, page 401,

     Oh ! still for me let merry bells peel out their holy chime;

   • 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1,

     The lights flashed, the crowds sang,... bells peeled, bombs thundered,... and the new Century made its triumphant entry.

   • 2006, Miles Richardson, Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place, Louisiana State University Press, ?ISBN, pages 230–231,

     As the tiny Virgin... approaches one of the barrio churches, bells peel vigorously, a brass band launches into a fast-paced tune, and large rockets zoom... .

Anagrams

• LEEP, Leep, Lepe, Pele, leep

Wolof

Noun

peel

1. shovel