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

But I 'low I cut my eye-teeth 'bout as airly as some of you that's got more larnin' under your skelp.

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward

W'y, sir, he neber tuck a skelp in all his life.

From Burl by Heady, Morrison

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

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