skelpn.¹

Forms: Also 1500s scelpe.

Etymology: Related to skelp v.¹

Chiefly northern and Scottish.

A blow, esp. one given with the flat of the hand, or with something having a flat surface; a slap or smack; also, the noise made by a blow of this kind. Also, in East Anglia, a strong kick (cf. the verb). For other variations of meaning see the Eng. Dial. Dict.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun] > smash or slap

skelpc1440

spank1833

spat1881

slap1940

splat1958

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something flat

clap?14..

patc1425

skelpc1440

plata1522

slat1611

slapping1632

slap1648

flop1662

smack1775

smacker1775

skelping1818

spat1823

spatting1840

c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 35 [He shall be] with schath of skelpys yll scarred.

c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 370 Fra oure skelpes not scatheles he skyppes.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 123 Now, in payn of a skelp, This sang thou not lose!

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 38 Yit for drede of a skelp, Help well thi dam!

?1555 D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne MS.) 127 I sowld haif revin thame all in raggis, And laid on skelp for skelp.

a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 664 Diss. He regardyth no more þe pope than he dothe a whelpe. Sed. Well lett hym alone; for that wyll I geve hym a scelpe.

?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer ii, in Poems sig. Q^v Quhyls luking comfort to resaue, Quhyls luking for a skelp.

1794 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 754 I gie them a skelp as they're creepin' alang.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) The water is said to come with a skelp on a boat, when its shock is sudden and violent.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 352 Skelp, a blow.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. vi. 287 They came crack down on their bottoms with a loud skelp on the seats.

1887 Schoolmaster 15 Jan. 104/1 He got two skelps on the side of the head.

figurative.a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 183 Wi' skelps like this fock sit but seenil down To wether-gammon.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

skelpn.²

Forms: Also scelp.

Etymology: ? < skelp v.¹ 1.

A thin narrow plate or flat strip of iron or steel, which by twisting and welding is converted into the barrel of a gun.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > materials

metal1591

skelp1811

stub-twist1843

coil1859

gun-iron1881

1811 Bradley Brit. Patent 3437 The manufacturing of iron skelps (for the making of barrels for fire-arms)..by rollers instead of by forge hammers.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 96 When a common musket barrel is made, the maker inserts the thicker end of a skelp in the fire.

1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 219 He made the barrels by twisting a scelp with bevelled edges round a mandril.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as skelp-bender, skelp-bending adj., skelp-forger, skelp-iron, skelp-twist, skelp-welding.

ΚΠ

1804 Aris's Gaz. (Birmingham) 23 Apr. 3/3 (advt.) Wanted a good skelp-forger, who has a perfect knowledge of drawing skelps for all kinds of binding, military, and African gun barrels.

1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 672/1 A strike among the skelp~forgers.

1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 147 A barrel made from threepenny skelp iron.

1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 724 This method has entirely superseded the skelp-welding by hand.

1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 4 The cheapest kind of twist barrels is that called scelp twist.

Draft additions 1993

Without article: iron or steel in the form of long narrow strips or sheets, used in the manufacture of pipes, gun barrels, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > metal in other forms

foil1398

scissel1622

skelp1835

punching1838

sponge1861

expanded metal1890

weldment1945

1835 W. Greener Gun viii. 39 (heading) Twopenny, or Wednesbury skelp.

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 818/1 These [pieces of scrap-iron] are sorted and used in preparing iron of various qualities, known as wire-twist,..twopenny, or Wednesbury-skelp, sham-damn-skelp.

1948 Beaver Dec. 4 The iron barrels were forged of what was termed ‘sham damn skelp’.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. b8/5 Canadian Phoenix..has to purchase skelp and plate from other sources.

1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xiv. 364 Both of these processes..utilize steel in the form of skelp—long, narrow strips of the desired thickness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† skelpadj.

Etymology: < skelp v.¹

Obsolete. rare.

Good for galloping on (cf. skelping n.¹).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > condition for movement

foec1400

smoothc1400

soft?1523

skelp1607

heavy1710

tender1727

severe1881

holding1891

underfoot1976

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 29 But if he haue not sweat at all, then you shall vpon some faire skelpe earth gallop him, till you make him sweat.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

skelpv.¹

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s skelpe, 1800s scelp.

Etymology: probably imitative.

Chiefly northern and Scottish.

a. transitive. To strike, beat, slap, smack, in later use spec. on the breech.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (intransitive)] > with something flat

skelpa1400

spat1868

slat1889

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something flat

platOE

skelpa1400

flapc1440

pat1533

slap1632

spatc1832

smack1835

paddle1847

a1400–50 Alexander 1924 Ledis me him hedire, Þat I may him skelp with a skorge.

c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 338 Skelpe hym with scourges and with skathes hym scorne.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gi^v I shall skelpe the on the skalpe, lo seest thou that.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. iii I'm friends wi' Mause,..Altho' they skelpit me.

1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. 226 Euripolus, who saw them skelp him, Resolv'd at any rate to help him.

1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lii Why not take 'em by twos across thy knee, and skelp em till they cry Meculpee?

1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. iii. 31 They should hae been skelped for their idleness.

absolute.1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 133 She scolds at the lasses, she skelps at the bairns.

b. To drive with blows.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > impel or drive animates > with blows

beatc1384

whip1587

stave1633

skelp1824

to flail along1888

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 126 Mons Meg we'll drag out, and we'll thunner him down, We'll skelp him to hell.

1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 131 My fair opponents skelp me aff.

1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist i. 17 A byke was regarded as a glorious capture,..because of the fun the boys had in skelpin' out the bees.

2. East Anglian. To kick violently.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > kick > kick violently

skelpa1825

welly1966

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Skelp, to kick with violence.

1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia

3. intransitive. To skip, trip, walk, or run rapidly; to hurry. Also with it.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)]

to stir one's stumpsa1500

to leg it?1587

skelp1721

split1790

to show a leg1818

to go the pace1829

step1856

1721 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 68 Instead of coach, on foot they skelp it.

1786 R. Burns Holy Fair ii, in Poems 41 Three hizzies, early at the road, Cam skelpan up the way.

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 81 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 559 Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire.

1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 123 If he will not take warning,..and no keep skelping about here.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Skelp, to move quickly, to skelp away.

1902 Belloc in Academy 3 May 453/1 Two hundred leagues and a half Marched I, skelped I, slipped I.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

skelpv.²

Etymology: ? < skelp n.², or a special use of skelp v.¹

transitive. To beat out into a skelp.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > forge or shape > in specific way

batterc1380

beat1483

peena1522

hammer1522

malleate1598

extenuate1599

upset1678

planish1688

to set down1703

foliate1704

raise1774

skelp1803

tilt1825

jump1851

cold-hammer1858

stub1869

upend1932

ding1939

coin1940

1803 [implied in: Aris's Gaz. (Birmingham) 26 Dec. 2/4 (advt.) Lot 1. A forge and mill..recently used as a plating or skelping forge. (at skelping n.²)].

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 139 The sheet, when drawn from the furnace, is skelped upon the floor, or on an iron plate.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

n.¹c1440

n.²1804

adj.1607

v.¹a1400

v.²1803

单词	skelp
释义	skelpn.¹ Forms: Also 1500s scelpe. Etymology: Related to skelp v.¹ Chiefly northern and Scottish. A blow, esp. one given with the flat of the hand, or with something having a flat surface; a slap or smack; also, the noise made by a blow of this kind. Also, in East Anglia, a strong kick (cf. the verb). For other variations of meaning see the Eng. Dial. Dict. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun] > smash or slap skelpc1440 spank1833 spat1881 slap1940 splat1958 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something flat clap?14.. patc1425 skelpc1440 plata1522 slat1611 slapping1632 slap1648 flop1662 smack1775 smacker1775 skelping1818 spat1823 spatting1840 c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 35 [He shall be] with schath of skelpys yll scarred. c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 370 Fra oure skelpes not scatheles he skyppes. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 123 Now, in payn of a skelp, This sang thou not lose! a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. iii. 38 Yit for drede of a skelp, Help well thi dam! ?1555 D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne MS.) 127 I sowld haif revin thame all in raggis, And laid on skelp for skelp. a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 664 Diss. He regardyth no more þe pope than he dothe a whelpe. Sed. Well lett hym alone; for that wyll I geve hym a scelpe. ?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer ii, in Poems sig. Q^v Quhyls luking comfort to resaue, Quhyls luking for a skelp. 1794 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 754 I gie them a skelp as they're creepin' alang. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) The water is said to come with a skelp on a boat, when its shock is sudden and violent. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 352 Skelp, a blow. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. vi. 287 They came crack down on their bottoms with a loud skelp on the seats. 1887 Schoolmaster 15 Jan. 104/1 He got two skelps on the side of the head. figurative.a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 183 Wi' skelps like this fock sit but seenil down To wether-gammon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). skelpn.² Forms: Also scelp. Etymology: ? < skelp v.¹ 1. A thin narrow plate or flat strip of iron or steel, which by twisting and welding is converted into the barrel of a gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > materials metal1591 skelp1811 stub-twist1843 coil1859 gun-iron1881 1811 Bradley Brit. Patent 3437 The manufacturing of iron skelps (for the making of barrels for fire-arms)..by rollers instead of by forge hammers. 1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 96 When a common musket barrel is made, the maker inserts the thicker end of a skelp in the fire. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 219 He made the barrels by twisting a scelp with bevelled edges round a mandril. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as skelp-bender, skelp-bending adj., skelp-forger, skelp-iron, skelp-twist, skelp-welding. ΚΠ 1804 Aris's Gaz. (Birmingham) 23 Apr. 3/3 (advt.) Wanted a good skelp-forger, who has a perfect knowledge of drawing skelps for all kinds of binding, military, and African gun barrels. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 672/1 A strike among the skelp~forgers. 1846 W. Greener Sci. Gunnery (new ed.) 147 A barrel made from threepenny skelp iron. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 724 This method has entirely superseded the skelp-welding by hand. 1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 4 The cheapest kind of twist barrels is that called scelp twist. Draft additions 1993 Without article: iron or steel in the form of long narrow strips or sheets, used in the manufacture of pipes, gun barrels, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > metal in other forms foil1398 scissel1622 skelp1835 punching1838 sponge1861 expanded metal1890 weldment1945 1835 W. Greener Gun viii. 39 (heading) Twopenny, or Wednesbury skelp. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 818/1 These [pieces of scrap-iron] are sorted and used in preparing iron of various qualities, known as wire-twist,..twopenny, or Wednesbury-skelp, sham-damn-skelp. 1948 Beaver Dec. 4 The iron barrels were forged of what was termed ‘sham damn skelp’. 1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Feb. b8/5 Canadian Phoenix..has to purchase skelp and plate from other sources. 1984 E. P. DeGarmo et al. Materials & Processes in Manuf. (ed. 6) xiv. 364 Both of these processes..utilize steel in the form of skelp—long, narrow strips of the desired thickness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † skelpadj. Etymology: < skelp v.¹ Obsolete. rare. Good for galloping on (cf. skelping n.¹). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > ground > [adjective] > condition for movement foec1400 smoothc1400 soft?1523 skelp1607 heavy1710 tender1727 severe1881 holding1891 underfoot1976 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 29 But if he haue not sweat at all, then you shall vpon some faire skelpe earth gallop him, till you make him sweat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). skelpv.¹ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s skelpe, 1800s scelp. Etymology: probably imitative. Chiefly northern and Scottish. 1. a. transitive. To strike, beat, slap, smack, in later use spec. on the breech. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (intransitive)] > with something flat skelpa1400 spat1868 slat1889 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > strike with an object > with something flat platOE skelpa1400 flapc1440 pat1533 slap1632 spatc1832 smack1835 paddle1847 a1400–50 Alexander 1924 Ledis me him hedire, Þat I may him skelp with a skorge. c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 338 Skelpe hym with scourges and with skathes hym scorne. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Gi^v I shall skelpe the on the skalpe, lo seest thou that. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. iii I'm friends wi' Mause,..Altho' they skelpit me. 1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. 226 Euripolus, who saw them skelp him, Resolv'd at any rate to help him. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lii Why not take 'em by twos across thy knee, and skelp em till they cry Meculpee? 1888 F. Hume Madame Midas i. iii. 31 They should hae been skelped for their idleness. absolute.1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 133 She scolds at the lasses, she skelps at the bairns. b. To drive with blows. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > impel or drive animates > with blows beatc1384 whip1587 stave1633 skelp1824 to flail along1888 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 126 Mons Meg we'll drag out, and we'll thunner him down, We'll skelp him to hell. 1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 131 My fair opponents skelp me aff. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist i. 17 A byke was regarded as a glorious capture,..because of the fun the boys had in skelpin' out the bees. 2. East Anglian. To kick violently. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > strike with specific thing [verb (transitive)] > with the foot > kick > kick violently skelpa1825 welly1966 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Skelp, to kick with violence. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 3. intransitive. To skip, trip, walk, or run rapidly; to hurry. Also with it. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] to stir one's stumpsa1500 to leg it?1587 skelp1721 split1790 to show a leg1818 to go the pace1829 step1856 1721 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 68 Instead of coach, on foot they skelp it. 1786 R. Burns Holy Fair ii, in Poems 41 Three hizzies, early at the road, Cam skelpan up the way. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 81 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 559 Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire. 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 123 If he will not take warning,..and no keep skelping about here. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Skelp, to move quickly, to skelp away. 1902 Belloc in Academy 3 May 453/1 Two hundred leagues and a half Marched I, skelped I, slipped I. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). skelpv.² Etymology: ? < skelp n.², or a special use of skelp v.¹ transitive. To beat out into a skelp. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > forge or shape > in specific way batterc1380 beat1483 peena1522 hammer1522 malleate1598 extenuate1599 upset1678 planish1688 to set down1703 foliate1704 raise1774 skelp1803 tilt1825 jump1851 cold-hammer1858 stub1869 upend1932 ding1939 coin1940 1803 [implied in: Aris's Gaz. (Birmingham) 26 Dec. 2/4 (advt.) Lot 1. A forge and mill..recently used as a plating or skelping forge. (at skelping n.²)]. 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 139 The sheet, when drawn from the furnace, is skelped upon the floor, or on an iron plate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.¹c1440n.²1804adj.1607v.¹a1400v.²1803
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