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noun

Skipper n.

One who, or that which, skips.

A young, thoughtless person.

(Zool.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).

The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Skipper n.

(Naut.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

A ship boy. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Skipper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Skipper" Quotes from Famous Books

... replied the Ripper's skipper, as he put about and went whizzing over the blue waters of ...

— The Motor Boys on the Pacific • Clarence Young

... cross-handed very well, and she had no difficulty in pulling the skiff out to the Greyhound's moorings. Kate stepped on board of the sail-boat, and Fanny, fastening the painter of the skiff at the stern, began to bustle around with as much confidence as though she had been a skipper ever since ...

— Hope and Have - or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People • Oliver Optic

... other parties she saw were much more decorous, even to affectation, except that at the old skipper's, and he was viewed by the family as a subject for toleration, because he had been a friend and messmate of Mrs. Morton's father. All the good side of that lady and Ida came out towards him and his belongings. He had an invalid granddaughter, with a spine complaint and feeble ...

— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge

... would be greeted from the deck with the sight of another white-winged wanderer like ourself, steering for his distant port. Then would come conjecture as to whither he might be bound, and sailor-like reflections upon his rig, qualities of sailing, and the judgment of the skipper in the selection of ...

— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay

... theology of hard work is what you will find most of aboard ship. Carry on and do your duty; keep a sharp lookout, all gear shipshape, salute the bridge when going on watch, that is the whole duty of a good officer. That's plenty theology for a seaman." But the skipper's eye turned brightly toward his bookshelves, where he had several volumes of sermons, mostly of ...

— Where the Blue Begins • Christopher Morley

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