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skelp
▪ I. skelp, n.1 Chiefly north. and Sc. Also 6 scelpe. [Related to skelp v.1] A blow, esp. one given with the flat of the hand, or with something having a flat surface; a slap or smack; also, the noise made by a blow of this kind. Also, in East Anglia, a strong kick (cf. the vb.). For other variation...
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Skelp
Barrels made from skelp have typically been thought of as having inferior quality. (Pipe made from skelp can be perfectly acceptable in quality, but a gun barrel must withstand much higher pressures than most pipes.)
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Skelp, Pennsylvania
Skelp is an unincorporated community located in Tyrone Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on Skelp Mountain Road (Route 1008) at the intersection with Hobbit Hollow Road, at the foot of Mt.
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skelping
▪ 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 h...
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Culp, Pennsylvania
It is located in Sinking Valley and is near Skelp, another small unincorporated community. Sinking Run flows through Culp.
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skelper
▪ I. ˈskelper1 dial. [f. skelp v.1] One who slaps or smacks; also, a specially large thing or tall person.1790 Burns To a Gentleman, etc. 7 That vile doup-skelper, Emperor Joseph. 1790 Grose Prov. Gloss., Skelper, a large thing of any kind. 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Skelper, a tall, lanky ...
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skelpie-limmer
skelpie-limmer Sc. [f. skelp v.1] A jade, hussy.1785 Burns Halloween xiv, Ye little Skelpie-limmer's-face! I daur you try sic sportin. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 13 And brewsters tongues, wi' dads and dabs, Rome's skelpie-limmer thumpet.
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John Duignan
His works of fiction include Skelp the Aged, co-written with Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins, The Buick Stops Here, co-written with Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins Hopkins and Duignan began writing Skelp the Aged as a play, before deciding to make it a novel.
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scemiter
scelp, sceme, scemiter see skelp, scheme n.1, scimitar.
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Ayr Gold Cup
Records
Most successful horse (3 wins):
Dazzle – 1889, 1890, 1891
Leading jockey (4 wins):
Tom Nicholson – Dominie Skelp (1827), Brunswick (1830), Gondolier Monreith
1820: Chance
1821: colt by Stamford
1822: colt by Viscount
1823: Lancer
1824: Stratherne
1825: Lancer
1826: Robin Hood
1827: Dominie Skelp
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shangan
† shangan Sc. Obs. Also shangin, shanjan. [a. Gael. seangan, ? f. seang slender, narrow.] ‘A stick cleft at one end for putting on a dog's tail’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.). Cf. shangy n.1786 Burns Ordination ii, He'll clap a shangan on her tail, An' set the bairns to daud her Wi' dirt this day. 1789 D. Davi...
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Chester Pipe and Tube Company
By the early 1880s, the company was manufacturing about 18,000 tons of wrought iron pipes annually from 20,000 tons of skelp iron.
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Cornelius Whitehouse
Tubes were made by heating a strip of iron (a skelp), the sides of which were overlapped and hammered to form a weld.
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lunyie
† ˈlunyie Sc. ? Obs. Also 6 lonȝe, lounie, 7 leungyie, 9 lunzie, lungie. Var. of loin n.1508 Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 121 Lene larbar, loungeour, baith lowsy in lisk and lonȝe. a 1520 ― Poems xxvi. 75 Belliall, with a brydill renyie, Evir lascht thame on the lunyie. 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia iii...
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Ian Donald Cochrane Hopkins
Hopkins has also had three satirical novels published, each co-authored with John Duignan: Skelp the Aged in 2016; The Buick Stops Here in 2017; and The Hopkins and Duignan began writing Skelp the Aged as a play, before deciding to make it a novel.
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