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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Skipper" Quotes from Famous Books

... putrid biscuit-dust and drops of water, till the water was washed overboard and gone; and then notice after notice, "On this day such an one died," "On this day such an one was washed away"—the log kept up to the last, even when there was only that to tell, by the stern business-like merchant skipper, whoever he was; and how at last, when there was neither food nor water, the strong man's heart seemed to have quailed, or perhaps risen, into a prayer, jotted down in the log—"The Lord have mercy on us!"—and then a blank of several pages, ...

— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous

... was weak for some moments, and cried; but only one hope was in life; The hood upon baby I tied—I fastened the shawl on my wife. The skipper took charge of the child—he stuck to his word till the last; But only this hood on the wild, bitter shore of the sea ...

— The Poems of Henry Kendall • Henry Kendall

... may be more people than Chatfield and the Squire in at this business," continued Vickers. "Just so! We—Copplestone and myself—know very well that the skipper of the Pike, Andrius, is in it: that's undeniable. But there may be others—or one other, or two—on shore here. And as the Pike can communicate by wireless, those on board her may have sent a message to their shore confederates ...

— Scarhaven Keep • J. S. Fletcher

... be added that in contradistinction to the nicknames of Skipper conferred upon Evans, and Mate on Campbell, Scott himself was known among the afterguard ...

— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

... through thick and thin (Clear are his old eyes burning), Steers the course with his trusty "grin," Straight, where the others are turning! Thanks gave to him I know not who, For he scolded the skipper, too!— Back he went to his home right ...

— Poems and Songs • Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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