Meaning of skelp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To beat or slap with the hand.
   Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
2. To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
   transitive
3. To beat, pound or hammer.
   Northern-England, Scotland, transitive
4. To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.
   transitive
5. To drive by blows; to drive (hard), to cause to move rapidly.
   Scotland
6. To move briskly along; to run.
   Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, intransitive
7. To rain heavily; (of rain) to fall.
   intransitive

Examples

“But Mistress Munro would up and be at the door and in she'd yank Andy by the lug, and some said she'd take⟳ down his breeks and skelp him, but maybe that was a lie⟳.”

“My stomach was just sore and I was rubbing it. But he just reached and skelped me on the leg and I fell down and he waited for me to get⟳ up and he skelped me on the b*m.”

“... hither blith comes tinker John, Who skelps the kettle, and sweet tunes the drone, […]”

“"Fa' in! fa' in!" he's yelpin : The fifes are whuslin' loud and clear, An ' sair the drums they're skelpin'.”

“... sewing, hammering, and "skelping away at the leather."”

“My fair opponents skelp me aff,[…]”

“We'll skelp him to hell, / where his frien's will him crown,[…]”

“A byke was regarded as a glorious capture⟳, not only for the sake of the honey, but because of the fun the boys had in skelpin' out the bees.”

“[…] the lassie became extremely wild, ran like⟳ a hare, and […] skelped home in a crack, on the "light⟳ side of her foot," to Barniewater.”

“... that little plaguy breed⟳ / That skelp aboot in youngster's hair.”

“... up cam my young Lord Evandale, skelping as fast as his horse could trot, and twenty red-coats at his back.”

“... I saw⟳ Pat skelping along without a cap or a hat on his sun-burnt hair. 'What's the hurry⟳, Pat?' says I. 'I'm going to see⟳ the execution,' says he.”

“[…] sha […] com skelpin yam, as thof summat had bont her, Or thoosans o' rattens an mice was behont her. Lawk! hoo sha did[…]”

“... more than halfway to the summit / A rain⟳ squall down on them did plummet, / Skelping down harder by the minute / We'll wait⟳ […]”

“"Lord Harry only knows what sort⟳ of storm is skelping down." They two knew what sort⟳ of storm it was, when they reached the long pasture that raked up into the Logie highroad. The wind came, and the snow⟳, and biting hail - came ravening on the track of the wild-geese[…]”

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