skelp
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English skelpen, probably of imitative origin. The noun is from Middle English skelp, from the verb.
Verb
skelp (third-person singular simple present skelps, present participle skelping, simple past and past participle skelped)
- (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 24:
- 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.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 67:
- 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.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 24:
- (intransitive, Scotland) To move briskly along.
Noun
skelp (plural skelps)
- A blow; a smart stroke.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Brockett to this entry?)
- (Scotland) A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
- (Scotland) A large portion.
Etymology 2
Noun
skelp (plural skelps)
- A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
- 1836, William Newton (editor), The London Journal of Arts and Sciences; and Repertory of Patent Inventions, pages 407-8,
- […] he then heats one half of the skelp at a time in an air furnace, or other fire, and having so heated it, he passes the skelp between a pair of grooved rollers placed at the mouth of the furnace, for the purpose of uniting (or marrying, as he terms it) the edges of the metal ; that is, causing the edges of the open part of the skelp to be pressed together, and made to adhere and form a complete cylinder.
- 1836, William Newton (editor), The London Journal of Arts and Sciences; and Repertory of Patent Inventions, pages 407-8,
Verb
skelp (third-person singular simple present skelps, present participle skelping, simple past and past participle skelped)
- (transitive) To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
- (transitive) To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.
Anagrams
Scots
Etymology
Probably imitative, or from Scottish Gaelic sgealp (“slap”).
Verb
skelp (third-person singular simple present skelps, present participle skelpin, simple past skelpt, past participle skelpt)
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