(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) 42 min: Cha Bum-Kun presses OVER-AMBITIOUS BUT DECENT WILD SKELP on his Cha Du-Ri-mote Control.
(2) Argentina appear to have run out of ideas; it's all ambitious skelps from distance.
(3) 65 min: Birsa - Slovenia's best outfield player - takes a skelp from distance.
(4) Fallon brings a raking right-to-left Reid pass down on the edge of the Slovak area but skelps it miles over and wide right.
(5) Di Maria, cutting into the box, drags what might be a shot, and what might be a pass towards Ronaldo, straight to the feet of Miranda, who skelps clear.
(6) But Muller, trying to release Podolski down the inside left from the centre circle, gives the ball far too much of a skelp, and the danger is gone as it sails into the stand.
(7) The ball comes out to Okazaki, who skelps a shot against the left-hand post.
(8) Sunderland will be happy that, at the moment, they're restricting the English champions to speculative skelps.