skelp
Example Sentences
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It also helped that he was still fit to give his charges a skelp around the lug if required.
From The Guardian
The young man seemed highly amused by his elderly companion, who--two monstrous ostrich feathers nodding over her the while--was vowing by her soul and body that she couldn't touch another skelp of jelly--no, not the tiniest wee bit--unless somebody fed her with a spoon; which Terence, entering into the humour of the situation, proceeded immediately to do, amid the laughter and applause of all his neighbours.
From Project Gutenberg
When you come for my skelp, I'll be thar.
From Project Gutenberg
What's more just now, gineral," shouted a half-angry ranger, "'twasn't your place to lose yer skelp a-comin'.
From Project Gutenberg
My skelp isn't wuth as much as Bowie's is, anyhow.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.