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
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 J. W. (John William) De Forest
This old bronco fancier's skelp is over on my bridle, if you thinks you'd know it.'
From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis
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 Violet Flint
W'y, sir, he neber tuck a skelp in all his life.
From Burl by Morrison Heady
