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English
Etymology
See sculptor.
Verb
sculp (third-person singular simple present sculps, present participle sculping, simple past and past participle sculped)
- (obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
1636, G 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: ], →OCLC:the tenor of my just complaint / Were sculpt with steel on rocks of adamant !
- (transitive) To flay.
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