| 单词 | skelping earth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskelping earth The action of the verb in various senses. Also skelping earth (see quot. 1607 and cf. skelp adj.). ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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