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

Moreover, he lets this Silver Phil go onharmed when by every roole his skelp is forfeit.

From Wolfville Nights by Lewis, Alfred Henry

How it must go ag'in the grain with 'em to take a skelp when it comes in the way of dooty!

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)

The Poet, some guid angel help him, Or else, I fear some ill ane skelp him, He may do weel for a’ he’s done yet, But only—he’s no just begun yet.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert