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- location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
How To Use Calpe In A Sentence
- When extrusions of the highest quality are required, as in strong alloy aircraft parts, extrusion billets may be scalped before shipment to remove surface liquation.
- Remember, too, that he is hardly ever a monopolist: he works in fierce competition with fellow scalpers.
- The psst-hey-buddy guy may not be the image the new "ticket broker" industry wishes to be associated with—and, goodness knows, one needs to make sure the curbside tickets are legit—but maybe these days dealing with the low-tech scalper is one's best hope of not getting scalped. Don't Blame a Scalper When You Think You've Been Fleeced
- These may range from the practice of making minimal surgical incisions to using electrosurgery, lasers, and ultrasonic scalpels for coagulation of bleeding vessels.
- The epidermis was spread out on a glass plate beneath a low-power binocular microscope and cut into pieces of the required size using a combination of razor and scalpel blades.
- (Something I might have done, too, back at the ticket line, when the mama-scalper had offered us the discounted ticket.) French Word-A-Day:
- The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams. Local Color
- Across the river, the Viet Cong territory was a number of scalped hills: it had been defoliated.
- The instruments which he originally used were more often the bistoury or scalpel, although the clarinet was not absent in his life.
- Squall remembered that she had used Mace on Scalpel.