scelp

Noun (1)

skelp (plural skelps)

1. A blow; a smart stroke, especially with the hand; a smack.
   • They came crack down on their bottoms with a loud skelp on the seats.1833, Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log
2. (Scotland) A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
3. (Scotland) A large portion.
   • Great skelps of riotous colors followed each other across the window-framed screen, pounding upon bleak northern hearts as the surf pounds upon a rocky headland.1921, The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, page 4

Noun (2)

skelp (plural skelps)

1. A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
   • […] he then heats one half of the skelp at a time in an air furnace, or other fire, and having so heated it, he passes the skelp between a pair of grooved rollers placed at the mouth of the furnace, for the purpose of uniting (or marrying, as he terms it) the edges of the metal ; that is, causing...1836, William Newton, editor, The London Journal of Arts and Sciences; and Repertory of Patent Inventions, pages 407–8

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