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

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

And when a skelp cleaves siffling doom, And vapours scyle a greenish ghaut, Rebellious vandals stamp their feet As rulling Cyons wield hell's prong.

From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean

This old bronco fancier's skelp is over on my bridle, if you thinks you'd know it.'

From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry

“I mind when I was a bairn getting mony a skelp and being shoo’d to bed like pou’try,” she would say.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis