sculp

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Etymology

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See sculptor.

Verb

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sculp (third-person singular simple present sculps, present participle sculping, simple past and past participle sculped)

  1. (obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
    • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb []], →OCLC:
      the tenor of my just complaint / Were sculpt with steel on rocks of adamant !
  2. (transitive) To flay.

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