skeller

Verb

skeller (third-person singular simple present skellers, present participle skellering, simple past and past participle skellered)

1. (dialectal, obsolete) to warp; to bend; to twist
   • It is grooved at the back and stayed with oak or mahogany cross-pieces or clamps for preventing skellering or twisting from damp and changes of temperature, which would spoil the flatness of the working side.1914, John Handsley Dales, “Apparatus and Materials for Drawing” (chapter II), in A Manual of Mechanical Drawing, Cambridge; New York: w:Cambridge University Press, w:G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 4
   • […] on the other hand, rapidity of machining is obtained when the steel is in the normalised condition, but time is lost in subsequently heat treating and, what is more serious, unless this process is carefully carried out, warping and skellering may render the part too much out of truth for final...1917, Bagnall-Wilde, “Eighth Meeting, 52nd Session”, in The Aeronautical Journal, volume XXI, number 83, page 337