1. A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together
   "The gunsmith carefully shaped the skelp into a rifle barrel"
    
2. [UK, dialect] A sharp blow or slap
   "He gave the misbehaving child a skelp on the bottom"

1. To strike or slap, especially with the palm of the hand
   "The mother skelped the child's hand for touching the hot stove"

Derived forms: skelped, skelping, skelps

Encyclopedia: Skelp, Pennsylvania