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v. To beat or slap.

n. A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.

n. A blow; a smart stroke.

n. A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.

v. To strike; to slap.

v. To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.

n. A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.

To strike, especially with the open hand; slap; spank.

To kick severely.

To beat, as a clock.

To move rapidly or briskly along; hurry; run; bound.

To leap awkwardly.

n. A slap: a stroke; a blow.

n. A squall; a heavy fall of rain.

n. A large portion. Compare skelper, 2, and skelping. Jamieson.

n. A strip of iron prepared for making a pipe or tube by bending it round a bar and welding it. Those made for gun-barrels are thicker at one end than at the other.

"The skelp is a piece or bar of iron, about three feet long, and four inches wide, but thicker and broader at one end than at the other; and the barrel of a musket is formed by forging out such pieces to the proper dimensions, and then folding or bending them into a cylindrical form, until the edges overlap, so that they can be welded together."

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