▪ I. ˈskelping, vbl. n.1 dial.
[f. skelp v.1]
The action of the verb in various senses. Also skelping earth (see quot. 1607 and cf. skelp a.).
| 1607 Markham Caval. iii. (1617) 29 More, Medow, Heath, greenswarth, or grasse leyes, all of which my countrymen of the North call skelping earths, because a horse may..gallop smoothly thereupon. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xvii, He must have been a great villain, indeed,..and I wish I had the skelping o' him. 1820 ― Monast. iv, I reckon their skelping back and forward..has been a main cause of a' the breach between us and England. 1895 Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xxxiii, We were but silly boys that needed skelping. |
▪ II. skelping, vbl. n.2
see skelp v.2
▪ III. ˈskelping, ppl. a. dial.
[f. as prec.]
That skelps, in various senses; also, big, large, lusty.
| 1607 Markham Caval. vi. (1617) 3 If the fierce Horse have in his skelping course either upwithes, inwithes, or downewithes. 1785 Burns Jolly Beggars 22 And aye he gies the tozie drab The tither skelpin' kiss. 1787 Grose Prov. Gloss., Skelping, full, bursting, very large. 1828 Carr Craven Gloss., Skelping, stout, lusty. ‘That's a skelping lass’. 1866 J. E. Brogden Prov. Lincs., Skelping, large or fine. |