n. - A blow; a smart stroke.
n. - A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain.
v. t. - To strike; to slap.
n. - 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.
v. t. - To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making.