Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scalp-lock.
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The keen weapon cut the war-plume from the scalping-tuft of Uncas, and passed through the frail wall of the lodge, as though it were hurled from some formidable engine.
The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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