skelp

• I knowed what he was goin' to do--skelp my father! —  The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln
• "Punch a hole in yore skelp, and I'll bet that big haid of yourn would wizzle all up like them red balloons they sell at circuses! —  Skyrider
• The skelp is a piece or bar of iron, about three feet long, and four inches wide, but thicker and broader at one end than at the other; and the barrel of a musket is formed by forging out such pieces to the proper dimensions, and then folding or bending them into a cylindrical form, until the edges overlap, so that they can be welded together About twenty years ago, the workmen, employed at a very extensive factory in forging these skelps out of bar-iron, 'struck' for an advance of wages; and as their demands were very exorbitant, they were not immediately complied with. —  On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
• "Faith, an 'maybe he'd fetch her a skelp an' well she'd desarve it." —  The Blue Lagoon: a romance
• Dick! hit him a skelp. —  The Blue Lagoon: a romance

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