sculp

English

Etymology

See sculptor.

Verb

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.

References

• “sculp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.