skelp
/skɛlp
/verb [with object] Scottish & Northern English
Strike, slap, or smack: (as adjective skelped) the cries of skelped weans...
- The unwieldy but serviceable striker skelped a ball across the goalmouth that kissed the crossbar on its way past.
- Ricksen stepped up and skelped the free-kick into the top corner.
- He didn't just touch it in the second minute, though, he skelped it.
Origin
Late Middle English: probably imitative.
- reconnection
- reconnoissance
- reconnoiter
- reconnoiterer
- reconnoitre
- reconnoitrer
- reconquer
- reconquest
- reconquista
- reconsecrate
- reconsecration
- reconsider
- reconsideration
- reconsign
- reconsignment
- reconsole
- reconsolidate
- reconsolidation
- reconstituent
- reconstitute
- reconstituted stone
- reconstitution
- reconstruct
- reconstructable
- reconstructed stone