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- verb Present participle of
sculp .
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Examples
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Then followed the "sculping," or skinning, which was despatched with marvellous rapidity.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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Or you can go online and find and article on sculping/carving wood into replicas. goodlcuk
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Or you can go online and find and article on sculping/carving wood into replicas. goodlcuk
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Directions are given by Theophilus for the workroom, the benches at which the smiths are to sit, and also the most minute technical recipes for "instruments for sculping," for scraping, filing, and so forth, until the workshop should be fitted with all necessary tools.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
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I might have thought I was being favored had not Mrs. Davis frankly informed me that her few pieces of china were shunned by her men-folks on the plea the ware "dulled their sculping-knives."
A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907
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Behind them were the still madder, swifter, more terrible waters, coming in sudden thuds, in furious drives, eddying and sculping and rearing in an orgy or remorseless and heartrending destruction.
Waysiders Seumas O'Kelly 1899
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I see you've given up your painting and sculping to do this!
Carnac's Folly, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897
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I see you've given up your painting and sculping to do this!
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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I see you've given up your painting and sculping to do this!
Carnac's Folly, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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O'Brien, the master's mate, called me a young sculping, a word I had never heard before.
Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820
whichbe commented on the word sculping
Unsealing a seel.
September 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word sculping
I think sculp is not ghosted; it should be on my Newfoundlander list.
September 4, 2008