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Definition: SKELP |
SKELPNoun1. 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. 2. A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain. 3. A blow; a smart stroke. Transitive verb1. To strike; to slap. |
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Mining | Mild steel strip, often of Bessemer steel, from which tubes are made by drawing it through a welding bell, at welding temperature, to produce butt-welded or lap-welded tubes or pipes. See also:butt weld. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SKELP |
| Specialty definitions using "SKELP": pipe processor ♦ roller, merchant mill ♦ scarfer, skelp iron, SKELP PROCESSOR, SUPERVISOR, MERCHANT-MILL ROLLING AND FINISHING. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SKELP" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (tear, tear rip). |
| Language | Translations for "SKELP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Czech | pásová ocel (strap iron). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | buizenstrip (ribbon steel, strip steel), bandstaal (band, hoop, hoop-iron, ribbon steel, sheet, steel rolled strip, steel strip, steelband, strap, strap-iron, strip, strip steel, strip-iron). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | lame, fer en rubans, acier en ruban. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Bandstahl (band, hoop, ribbon steel, sheet, steel strip, steelband, strap, strip, strip steel), Bandeisen (band, coils, hoop, hoop-iron, sheet, steel strip, steelband, strap, strap-iron, strip, strip steel, strip-iron). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | siet (hasten, hie, hurry, hurry up, sped, to be in a hurry, to bucket, to gird, to hasten, to hie, to hie one's way, to hurry, to nip along, to put on, to scurry, to skelp, to skitter, to speed, to succour, to whirl), lendületesen leír (to skelp), lendületesen elmond (to skelp), lendületesen (animatedly, breezily, to skelp), lábát (to skelp), kilép (pace, to discharge, to egress, to emerge, to exit, to issue, to overstep, to protrude, to secede, to skelp, to step out), gyorsan rakja a (to skelp), elnadrágol (to paddle, to skelp, to spank, to thwack, to whack, whack), elfenekel (spank, to lather, to lay it on sy, to paddle, to skelp, to spank), előad (to hold forth, to interpret, to lecture, to perform, to play, to profess, to represent, to set forth, to skelp, to state, to unfold), arcul legyint (to skelp). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | elpskay sgailc (a bald pate, a smart blow, bald pate, baldness, slap : sgailc de'n, smart blow). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SKELP": skelped, skelping, skelpit, skelps. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: kelps. | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: elks, kelp, keps, leks, skep. | |
-2 letters: elk, els, kep, lek, pes, sel. | |
-3 letters: el, es, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: keleps, skelps, splake. | |
+2 letters: kelpies, klephts, peskily, pickles, pliskie, puslike, skelped, skelpit, spackle, sparkle, speckle, spelunk, splakes. | |
+3 letters: asparkle, ekpweles, flyspeck, lockstep, peakless, plackets, plinkers, pliskies, pluckers, plunkers, prickles, pusslike, skelping, skiplane, slowpoke, soaplike, spackled, spackles, sparkled, sparkler, sparkles, sparlike, speckled, speckles, spelunks, spikelet, sprinkle, steplike, wasplike, wisplike. | |
+4 letters: clerkship, flyspecks, kephalins, kerplunks, lakeports, lapstrake, locksteps, penuckles, pickerels, plankters, pluckiest, purselike, ropewalks, sheeplike, skeptical, skiplanes, skippable, sleeplike, sleepwalk, slowpokes, spacewalk, sparklers, sparklier, speakable, speckling, spelunked, spelunker, spikelets, spikelike, spinelike, sprinkled, sprinkler, sprinkles, stockpile, sylphlike. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4B 45 4C 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.- . .-.. .--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001011 01000101 01001100 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S K E L P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004B 0045 004C 0050 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5345394650 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, cseh |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | holandský, nizozemský, néerlandais, holländisch, holland |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, francia |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | nìmec, nìmecký, Duitse, allemand, német |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, magyar |
Scottish | foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan | skotský, Schots, écossais, schottisch, skót |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglicky, anglais, englisch, angol, beurla |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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