(Zool.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
3.
(Zool.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
4.
(Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
... future, troubled his head no further about the matter. Him he sometimes took upon his knee, as of old. To Franky he would give languid advice about the pictures he was colouring, about the amount of cobbler's wax to affix to the skipjack he was making, about the rigging ... — Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann
...Skipjack-Pike, n. This fish, Temnodon saltator, Cuv. and Val., is the same as the British and American fish of that name. It is called Tailor (q.v.) in Sydney. The name Skipjack used also to be given by the whalers to the ... — A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
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