sculping

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

Adrift in the Ice-Fields

Or you can go online and find and article on sculping/carving wood into replicas. goodlcuk

SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6042

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

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

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

I see you've given up your painting and sculping to do this!

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

O'Brien, the master's mate, called me a young sculping, a word I had never heard before.

Peter Simple

O'Brien, the master's mate, called me a young sculping, [1] a word I never heard before.

Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2

"I guess I won't go into the sculping business, for I find

Little Maid Marian

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

Peter Simple