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▸ noun:  (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
▸ noun:  The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
▸ noun:  (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
▸ noun:  (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
▸ noun:  (figurative) The top; the summit.
▸ verb:  To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
▸ verb:  (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
▸ verb:  (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
▸ verb:  (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
▸ verb:  To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
▸ verb:  (surgery) To remove the skin of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove the grass from.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
▸ verb:  (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.






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