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Look up: Scalping

  1. Scalping
    Rough cleaning of paddy; removes most foreign material prior to drying and storage.
    Found on http://www.pestmanagement.co.uk/lib/glos

  2. Scalping
    is the removal of the finer fraction of a feed to a stone processing plant to reject unwanted material.
    Found on http://www.longcliffe.co.uk/products/glo

  3. scalping
    Removal of the scalp and hair from an enemy as a trophy. Scalping is usually associated with American Indian peoples, although it was relatively uncommon among them until the Spanish, French,...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  4. scalping
    the removal of vegetation and other organic or inorganic material to expose underlying mineral soil and prepare an area for planting or seeding Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • accomplished at some point along the line of aggregate flow. Category: Building industry • scalping - strictly, the removing of...oversize from a feed which i...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  5. Scalping
    Scalp'ing (skălp'ĭng), adjective & noun from Scalp . Scalping iron (Surg.) , an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. -- Scalping knife , a knife used by North American Indians in scalping.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/25

  6. scalping
    <surgery> Scalping iron, an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. Scalping knife, a knife used by north American Indians in scalping. ... (06 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. Scalping
    `Scalping` is the act of removing the scalp, usually with the hair, as a portable proof or trophy of prowess in war. The practice has been known in Europe, Asia and Africa. Scalping is also associated with frontier warfare in North America, and was practiced by Native Americans and white colonists and frontiersmen over centuries of violent conflict.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalping

  8. Scalping
    • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scalp • a. & n. from Scalp.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. scalping
    removal of all or part of the scalp, with hair attached, from an enemy`s head. Historical evidence indicates that many cultures have engaged in the ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/39

  10. Scalping
    Buying up the good IPOs.
    Found on http://www.duke.edu/~charvey/Classes/wpg

  11. scalping
    scalping, taking the scalp of an enemy. The custom, comparable to head-hunting, was formerly practiced in Europe and Asia (Herodotus describes its practice by the Scythians, for example), but it is generally associated with North American natives, although many such groups did not take scalps. Most ...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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