verb

• (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap with the hand.
  "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."
• (transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat, pound or hammer.
  "... hither blith comes tinker John, Who skelps the kettle, and sweet tunes the drone, […]"
• (Scotland) To drive by blows; to drive (hard), to cause to move rapidly.
  "My fair opponents skelp me aff,[…]"
• (intransitive, Scotland, Northern England, Ireland) To move briskly along; to run.
  "[…] the lassie became extremely wild, ran like a hare, and […] skelped home in a crack, on the "light side of her foot," to Barniewater."

noun

• (Scotland) A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
• (Scotland) A large portion.
  "Great skelps of riotous colors followed each other across the window-framed screen, pounding upon bleak northern hearts as the surf pounds upon a rocky headland."

verb

• (transitive) To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
• (transitive) To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.