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Skelp   Listen
verb
Skelp  v. t.  
1.
To strike; to slap. (Scot.)
2.
To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.





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"Skelp" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shif'less Sol. "Ef this keeps on fur a month or so I won't hev the heart to shoot at any Injun who may come ag'inst me. I'll jest say: 'Here, Mr. Warrior, hop up an' take my skelp. It's a good skelp, a fine head o' hair an' I wuz proud o' it. I would like to hev kep' it, but seein' that you want it bad, snatch it off, hang it in your wigwam, tell the neighbors that ...
— The Eyes of the Woods - A story of the Ancient Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler
... fractious wean Has sat an' sullened by his lane Till, wi' a rowstin' skelp, he's taen An' shoo'd to bed - The ither bairns a' fa' to play'n', As ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson


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