skelp
Example Sentences
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David Narey's famous skelp to put Scotland one up against Brazil in 1982 was the exact point at which the rot set in.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2010
They keeps pesterin' an' projectin' about ontil the rattlesnake is plumb defunct, an' then they emits a whirlwind of new whoops, an' goes over to one side an' pulls off a skelp dance.
From Wolfville by Lewis, Alfred Henry
How it must go ag'in the grain with 'em to take a skelp when it comes in the way of dooty!
From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)
I a said I'll never gie wife, nor barn, nor folk o' no sort, skelp nor sizzup more, and ye'll know o' me no more among the sipers.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
It was not every man, he proudly asserted, who could receive and survive a skelp o' the Deil's tail!
From A Golfing Idyll or The Skipper's Round with the Deil On the Links of St. Andrews by Flint, Violet
