skelp


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skelp

(skɛlp)
vb
(tr) to slap
n
a slap
[C15: probably of imitative origin]

skelp

(skɛlp)
n
(Metallurgy) sheet or plate metal that has been curved and welded to form a tube
[C19: perhaps from Scottish Gaelic sgealb thin strip of wood]
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Skelp

 a heavy fall of rain.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

skelp


Past participle: skelped
Gerund: skelping

Imperative
skelp
skelp
Present
I skelp
you skelp
he/she/it skelps
we skelp
you skelp
they skelp
Preterite
I skelped
you skelped
he/she/it skelped
we skelped
you skelped
they skelped
Present Continuous
I am skelping
you are skelping
he/she/it is skelping
we are skelping
you are skelping
they are skelping
Present Perfect
I have skelped
you have skelped
he/she/it has skelped
we have skelped
you have skelped
they have skelped
Past Continuous
I was skelping
you were skelping
he/she/it was skelping
we were skelping
you were skelping
they were skelping
Past Perfect
I had skelped
you had skelped
he/she/it had skelped
we had skelped
you had skelped
they had skelped
Future
I will skelp
you will skelp
he/she/it will skelp
we will skelp
you will skelp
they will skelp
Future Perfect
I will have skelped
you will have skelped
he/she/it will have skelped
we will have skelped
you will have skelped
they will have skelped
Future Continuous
I will be skelping
you will be skelping
he/she/it will be skelping
we will be skelping
you will be skelping
they will be skelping
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been skelping
you have been skelping
he/she/it has been skelping
we have been skelping
you have been skelping
they have been skelping
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been skelping
you will have been skelping
he/she/it will have been skelping
we will have been skelping
you will have been skelping
they will have been skelping
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been skelping
you had been skelping
he/she/it had been skelping
we had been skelping
you had been skelping
they had been skelping
Conditional
I would skelp
you would skelp
he/she/it would skelp
we would skelp
you would skelp
they would skelp
Past Conditional
I would have skelped
you would have skelped
he/she/it would have skelped
we would have skelped
you would have skelped
they would have skelped
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
Translations
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References in classic literature ?
We've shaved three dories an' near skelped the boom off a Frenchman since noon, an' that's close sailin', ye may say."
Baxter took me to his links, quite ten miles off, where in a maze of tramway lines, railroads, and nursery-maids, we skelped our divotted way round nine holes like barges plunging through head seas.
The screen turns blood red and both fighters are depicted in stylish greys and blacks, which then gives you the ability to wipe out almost half of your opponents' life bar if you wish with one barbaric skelp.STEPHEN MCKEOWN
Examples include "argybargy", from "argle-bargle" ("trouble, argument"); "back-end" ("end of a season or year"); "midden" ("communal bin or just bin"); "muckman" ("binman"); "skelp" ("smack or slap"); "wynd" ("lane").
Environmental health officers were left horrified by the filthy conditions they discovered at Alisha Polski Skelp in Wellington Road, Handsworth.
The new slitting line will be installed in a 43,000-square-foot building that will be leased by TMK IPSCO to Ferrous, and will provide skelp to the two Wilder ERW pipe mills.
time to gan and if yi divvin shift I'll skelp yiz."
According to the captain of the Lisbon Lions - and two-time Parkhead boss - had he got up to such nonsense, his dad would have given him a skelp.
In my day a shopkeeper would've given me a skelp across the ear, a boot up the bum and sent me on my way.
Beware however for not all is as calm as it seems you may come away feeling crabbit if a rabbit has chewed your carrots for example or if Mr Campbell's Hardware store is your port of call watch that old till, it may not open until it is given a skelp! And so the story goes on.
It is manufactured by joining skelp end-to-end, accumulating long lengths (typically miles) of the skelp, running it through a tube mill, and accumulating it on a large reel.