Skelp

The skelp is a piece or bar of iron, about three feet long, and four inches wide, but thicker and broader at one end than at the other; and the barrel of a musket is formed by forging out such pieces to the proper dimensions, and then folding or bending them into a cylindrical form, until the edges overlap, so that they can be welded together. ❋ Charles Babbage (1831)

Give each other's children a skelp across the ear, impose and police standards of behaviour across the community. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He'll be after you down the street, trying to skelp you about the head with a brolly... ❋ Unknown (2007)

An 'altiye, if I fuckin' fin 'any fags, you're gettin' a fuckin 'skelp, man. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2000)

Sandy ga'e him a clap on the hurdles to quieten him, but aye the hent feet o 'him played skelp on the boddom o' the cairt, till I thocht he wudda haen't ca'd a 'to bits. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

Twa bairnies, twa callans, that skelp o'er the leas, ❋ Various (N/A)

Why, this afternoon, he jest tore a gentleman's skelp clean off his head, and he was borne out in a fainting condition. ❋ Various (N/A)

But they lifted off old Hodsie's skelp and left him out to die, ❋ Various (N/A)

Some of the heavier fish, too, after their jump may be seen to come down with portentous skelp on top of the retaining wall of the salmon-run in mid-stream, thence -- apparently with "wind bagged" -- to be ignominiously hurried back into the deep pool from which they have but the moment before hurled themselves. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)

"I was juist comin 'oot at the kirk door," says I, "when the minister cam 'skelp up again' me." ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

"'Twas never found out, from that hour to this, who done it!" muttered the Widow Geraghty, "but, may the Divvle skelp me if I touch one drop of chucken-tea again!" ❋ John Cournos (1915)

He was quicker than light, and near blowed my skelp into the next block before he saw who I was; then he dropped his weepon and said: ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

I gie them a skelp, as they're creepin 'alang, [spank] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

"Well, skelp off with you, and make a spade now," replied the other, who wanted to be quiet and think, "and you and Em'line can dig in the sand." ❋ Unknown (1907)

"Faith, an 'maybe he'd fetch her a skelp an' well she'd desarve it." ❋ Unknown (1907)

To skelp an 'scaud poor dogs like me, [spank, scald] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

I can locate the trouble all right, if I don't have to hang on to my skelp with both hands. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)

A Tory clubbed him an 'ripped his skelp off, the old man on his knees, a-bellowin' piteous, till they knifed him all to slivers an 'kicked what was left o' him into the road. ❋ Unknown (1899)

"I'm [gonna] skelp your [bahookie]!" ❋ Mr Pete M (2005)

"If you don't cut that [pish] out, you're gonna get [skelped]!" [The ugly] man had a face like a skelped arse. ❋ Fannybaws92 (2015)

John caught Dean [skelping] [a ghost] chick in [Kentucky]. ❋ Moloch-Tepes (2012)

I [gave] that [Bam Pot] a Skelping! ❋ Bam Pot (2021)

When the [salesman] explained the pluses and minuses of of different tablets, and how each affected their retail value on ebay, [Allison] thought he was quite [skelpful]. ❋ Zadkiel (2011)

A [wiz] pure [skelped] last night,[canny] remember leaving the pub ❋ Bailliestonboy (2009)

This [hummus] place gets 80 reviews and has 4 stars, lets go! [4 hours] later... [Some nasty] kind of stomach bug "I just got skelped!" ❋ SlackDash (2018)