Definition of "skelping" []

• Present participle of skelp. (verb)

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• "I gave ye a decent skelping, but I didna bloody ye, for God's sake."
• "Lord Evandale, skelping as fast as his horse could trot, and twenty red-coats at his back."
• "“As for the rest, I guess how it is, and I scorn to bear malice, or tell tales, as much as another; but no thanks to that little jilting devil, Jenny Dennison, who deserves a tight skelping for trying to lead an honest lad into a scrape, just because he was so silly as to like her good-for-little chit face.”"