skelp

1. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap with the hand.Examples: "But Mistress Munro would up and be at the door and in she'd yank Andy by the lug, and some said she'd take down his breeks and skelp him, but maybe that was a lie."; "My stomach was just sore and I was rubbing it. But he just reached and skelped me on the leg and I fell down and he waited for me to get up and he skelped me on the b*m."Northern-EnglandScotlandtransitive

2. (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat, pound or hammer.Examples: "... hither blith comes tinker John, Who skelps the kettle, and sweet tunes the drone, […]"; ""Fa' in! fa' in!" he's yelpin : The fifes are whuslin' loud and clear, An ' sair the drums they're skelpin'."; "... sewing, hammering, and "skelping away at the leather.""Northern-EnglandScotlandtransitive

3. (Scotland) To drive by blows; to drive (hard), to cause to move rapidly.Examples: "My fair opponents skelp me aff,[…]"; "We'll skelp him to hell, / where his frien's will him crown,[…]"; "A byke was regarded as a glorious capture, not only for the sake of the honey, but because of the fun the boys had in skelpin' out the bees."Scotland

4. (intransitive, Scotland, Northern England, Ireland) To move briskly along; to run.Examples: "[…] the lassie became extremely wild, ran like a hare, and […] skelped home in a crack, on the "light side of her foot," to Barniewater."; "... that little plaguy breed / That skelp aboot in youngster's hair."; "... up cam my young Lord Evandale, skelping as fast as his horse could trot, and twenty red-coats at his back."IrelandNorthern-EnglandScotlandintransitive

5. (intransitive) To rain heavily; (of rain) to fall.Examples: "... more than halfway to the summit / A rain squall down on them did plummet, / Skelping down harder by the minute / We'll wait […]"; ""Lord Harry only knows what sort of storm is skelping down." They two knew what sort of storm it was, when they reached the long pasture that raked up into the Logie highroad. The wind came, and the snow, and biting hail - came ravening on the track of the wild-geese[…]"intransitive