Skelp n.
  1. A blow; a smart stroke. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain. [Scot.]
  Skelp, v. t.
  1. To strike; to slap. [Scot.]
  2. To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.
  Skelp, n. A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
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