skelp

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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

To slap with the open hand: an old word, said to have been imported from Iceland:— "I canno' tell a'; Some gat a skelp, and some gat a claw."

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

A high falsetto voice from the gathering' audience cried: 'Oh, ye bad boy, come here till I skelp ye!'—and there was a general laugh, in which the hapless object did not join.

From Wee Macgreegor Enlists by Bell, J. J. (John Joy)

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

I can locate the trouble all right, if I don't have to hang on to my skelp with both hands.

From The Thunder Bird by Bower, B. M.