skelp

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To beat or slap with the hand.

   “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.”

2. fiil To beat, pound or hammer.

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

3. fiil To drive by blows; to drive (hard), to cause to move rapidly.

   “My fair opponents skelp me aff,[…]”

4. fiil To move briskly along; to run.

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

5. fiil To rain heavily; (of rain) to fall.

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

6. isim A blow; a smart stroke, especially with the hand; a smack.

   “They came crack down on their bottoms with a loud skelp on the seats.”

7. isim A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
8. isim A large portion.

   “Great skelps of riotous colors followed each other across the window-framed screen, pounding upon bleak northern hearts as the surf pounds upon a rocky headland.”

9. isim A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
10. fiil To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
11. fiil To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.