Scalprum, scalpri. n. g. Col. An instrument wherewith a thyng is scraped or ripped. A surgeons instrument to take cortapt flesh from the boues. A grauing yron. A shauing knife. A knifeto cut vines.A cuum scalprum. Col. Aduocum, Col. Scalprum librarium. Suet. A pen knife.Scalprum sutorium. Hor. A shooemakers paring knife, or shauing knife.Scalprum fabrile.Liu.A carpenters chipping are.Scalprum chirurgicum. Cels. A lanceler or like instrumente.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scalprum, i, n. (collat. form scalper, ri, m., Cels. 8, 3) [scalpo], a sharp cutting instrument; a chisel, knife, etc., of sculptors, husbandmen, shoemakers, surgeons, etc., Liv. 27, 49; Col. 4, 25, 1; Hor. S. 2, 3, 106; Cels. 8, 3 sq.; Sen. Ep. 65, 13.—A penknife, Tac. A. 5, 8; Suet. Vit. 2.—Of a pruning-knife, Plin. 17, 16, 26, 119.