noun a blow; a smart stroke.
2. skelp ·noun a squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.
3. skelp ·vt to strike; to slap.
4. skelp ·add. ·vt to form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.
5. skelp ·noun a wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.