What's the difference between skelp and skep?

Skelp


Definition:

  • (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.

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.

Skep


Definition:

  • (n.) A coarse round farm basket.
  • (n.) A beehive.

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