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

He would have lost both skelp an' standin' if he had.

From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry

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

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

What's more just now, gineral," shouted a half-angry ranger, "'twasn't your place to lose yer skelp a-comin'.

From The Lost Gold of the Montezumas A Story of the Alamo by Stoddard, William O.