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Skelp

(n.) A blow; a smart stroke.
(n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.
(v. t.) To strike; to slap.
(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.
(v. t.) To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.