SKELP

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A blow; a smart stroke. [Prov. Eng.] Brockett.

2.
n.

A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain. [Scot.]

3.
v.

To strike; to slap. [Scot.] C. Reade.

4.
n.

A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.


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