Scalp vs Plunder - What's the difference?
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The top of the head; the skull.
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
* 2014 , Kaitlin Newman in Baltimore Sun'', ''
*:The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
* c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), The Two Gentlemen of Verona
A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native American warriors as a token of victory.
A victory.
* 1993 , John Frohnmayer, Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior (page 331)
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
(figurative) The top; the summit.
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
(slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
To screen or sieve ore before further processing
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
* J. S. Wells
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
To take (goods) by pillage.
To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
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An instance of plundering
The loot attained by plundering
(slang, dated) baggage; luggage
Scalp is a related term of plunder.
As verbs the difference between scalp and plunder
is that scalp is to remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident while plunder is .As a noun scalp
is the top of the head; the skull.scalp
English
(wikipedia scalp)Noun
(en noun)Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope
- By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
- Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
- Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp , and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.
- (Macaulay)
Derived terms
* scalpless * scalpyVerb
(en verb)- scalped ore
- We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
- (Knight)
Anagrams
* * *plunder
English
Verb
(en verb)- ''The mercenaries plundered the small town.
- The shopkeeper was plundered of his possessions by the burglar.
- The mercenaries plundered all the goods they found.
- ''"Now to plunder , mateys!" screamed a buccaneer, to cries of "Arrgh!" and "Aye!" all around.
- ''The miners plundered the jungle for its diamonds till it became a muddy waste.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- The Serb teed up Steve Davis, who crossed low for Graziano Pellè to plunder his fifth league goal of the campaign.
Derived terms
* plunderable * plunderage * plunderer * plunderousNoun
(-)- ''The Hessian kept his choicest plunder in a sack that never left his person, for fear that his comrades would steal it.