scalper2+ (skalper)

[L. scalper ( scalpr- ), also scalprum, a knife, chopper, chisel (of shoemakers, surgeons, husbandmen, sculptors, etc.), His closely shaven head, on which no other hair than the well-known and chivalrous scalping - tuft was preserved, was without ornament of any kind, with the exception of a solitary eagle's plume. J. F. Cooper , Last of Mohicans, iii. scalple (skalp'les), a. [ A cap of soot upon the top of his scalple skull. Kingsley, Alton Locke, vi.