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Skimmer   /skˈɪmər/   Listen
Skimmer

noun
1.
A rapid superficial reader.
2.
A cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids.
3.
A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown.  Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, straw hat.
4.
Gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food.



Skim

adjective
1.
Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed.  Synonym: skimmed.  "She can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter"



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"Skimmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... mass and then rub your hands with salad oil and then form this mass into balls. Cook for twenty minutes in boiling salted water. Lift with a skimmer on a napkin to drain. Serve with either onion, tomato or creamed sauce, or the dumplings may be rolled in flour, browned quickly in hot ...
— Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book - Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions • Mary A. Wilson

... long before the world, and are dead figures to the Skimmer of things, but tell a dark tale to the Reader of things, so dark, that I pray Heaven to protect me, and all other weak inoffensive persons, from the protection of my Lord Chancellor ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... deal of wit, and wants only a subject, to shew as much roguery: and should I be outwitted with all my sententious boasting of conceit of my own nostrum-mongership—[I love to plague thee, who art a pretender to accuracy, and a surface-skimmer in learning, with out-of-the-way words and phrases] I should certainly hang, ...
— Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson

... will not fall apart when a small spoonful is dropped into boiling water. Have the water slightly salted and boiling hard. Test a spoonful of the mixture. When of the right consistency drop a number of spoonfuls at a time into the water and cook for 5 minutes. Lift out with a skimmer and arrange in a dish, keeping them hot over water until ...
— 365 Luncheon Dishes - A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year • Anonymous

... the open door. She was frying sweet cakes in the boiling lard. Forgetting everything in her fear of being overheard, she went softly, with the dripping skimmer in her hand, across the kitchen, the fat falling on her shining floor at every step, and closed the door. Then she came close to her son, and said in a whisper, "The fader think it is goot." At John's angry exclamation she ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson

... a small fire, which I increase gradually, until the water begins to boil; during that time, the grain is stirred with a paddle. As soon as the ebullition is established, the grain is taken up with a large skimmer, and put to drain into a large basket hanging over the kettle; and when the grain has been totally taken up, the fire is increased so as to bring the water to boil again, until reduced to two-fifths, which degree ...
— The Art of Making Whiskey • Anthony Boucherie

... They skated yesterday, I knew, And now, just as I'm going to dine, The sun comes out, the skies grow blue, Ere we at Wimbledon can meet, Those horrid gaps!—that treacherous sludge! I shall not get one skimmer fleet. After my long and sloppy trudge. No go! One more lost Saturday! To skating's joys I'm still a stranger. I sit and curse the melting ray, In which my hopes all melt away— It means soft ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 27, 1890 • Various

... slices the long way of the fruit, and boil, until tender, in three waters, pouring off the water each time. Make a syrup of five cups of sugar and one cup of water and boil the orange in this until the syrup is almost boiled away. Remove with skimmer and let stand half an hour and roll each piece in granulated sugar. The confection was packed in dainty white boxes and covered with paraffin paper. They found a ...
— Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 - A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest • Various



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