sculping

American  

[skuhl-ping] / ˈskʌl pɪŋ /

noun

Newfoundland.

1. the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.

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Etymology

Origin of sculping

1810–20; sculp the skin of a seal with the blubber attached (perhaps a convergence of Irish scealbóg layer of flesh, slice, scealp, scealb slice, fragment, splinter, with English scalp ) + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

"I guess I won't go into the sculping business, for I find I'm no hand at making figgers."

From Little Maid Marian by Blanchard, Amy Ella

I believe that I stared at him very much, for he said to me— “‘What are you gaping at, you young sculping?

From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

I don't mean that he lives by sculping.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 22, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

All hands was out on the ice while daylight lasted, clubbing seals, gathering the carcasses into pans, sculping, then towing the hides aboard to salt 'em down.

From A Man in the Open by Pocock, Roger

Then followed the "sculping," or skinning, which was despatched with marvellous rapidity.

From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Hall, Charles W.