skelpingn.1
dialect.
The action of the verb in various senses. Also skelping earth (see quot. 1607 and cf. skelp adj.).
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the world > the earth > land > ground > [noun] > condition for movement > smooth
skelping earth1607
smooth1799
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
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun]
skelping1820
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 28 More, Medowe, Heath, greeneswarth, or grasse leyes; al which my Countrie men of the north call skelping earthes, because a horse may..gallop smoothely thereupon.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 105 He must have been a great villain, indeed,..and I wish I had the skelping o' him.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iv. 145 I reckon their skelping back and forward..has been a main cause of a' the breach between us and England.
1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xxxiii We were but silly boys that needed skelping.
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skelpingn.2
The action or process of skelp v.2 (in quot. 1803 attributive).
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > forging or shaping > types or methods of
planishing1361
malleationc1429
flatting1611
gold beating1621
shingling1674
skelping1803
upsetting1815
swaging1832
drop-forginga1884
dinging1923
upending1932
1803 Aris's Gaz. (Birmingham) 26 Dec. 2/4 (advt.) Lot 1. A forge and mill..recently used as a plating or skelping forge.
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skelpingadj.
dialect.
That skelps, in various senses; also, big, large, lusty.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adjective]
swiftc888
swifta1050
currentc1300
quickc1300
hastivea1325
hastyc1330
ingnel1340
swiftyc1380
speedfula1387
fasta1400
swippingc1420
speedy1487
fleet1528
tite?a1540
scudding1545
flighty1552
suddenly1556
flight1581
feathered1587
Pegasean1590
wing-footed1591
swift-winged?1592
thought-swift-flying1595
wind-winged?1596
swallow-winged1597
Pegasarian1607
skelping1607
rapid1608
night-swifta1616
celerious1632
clipping1635
perniciousa1656
volatile1655
quick-foot1658
meteorous1667
windy1697
high-flying1710
fleet-footed1726
aliped1727
wickc1760
velocious1775
flight-performing1785
fast-going1800
fast-moving1802
meteor1803
wight-wapping1830
fleety1841
speeding1847
swiftening1848
two-forty1855
fire-swift1865
pennate1870
spinning1882
percursory1884
zippy1889
meteoric1895
pacy1906
presto1952
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > exceptionally large of its kind
gurta1400
swappingc1440
swappit?a1513
strongc1540
thwacking1567
thumping1576
bouncing1579
swingeinga1592
whoppinga1625
rapping1657
spankinga1666
whisking1673
swagging1731
skelping?a1786
whacking1797
slapping1825
plumping1832
walloping1847
slashing1854
smacking1888
plonking1896
sollicking1946
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 9 If the fierce horse haue in his skelping course, eyther vpwithes, inwithes, or downewithes.
?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 195 An' ay he gies the tozie drab The tither skelpan kiss.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Skelping, full, bursting, very large.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Skelping, stout, lusty. ‘That's a skelping lass’.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Skelping, large or fine.
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