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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito [syn: skipjack, skipjack tuna, Euthynnus pelamis]
2: medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna [syn: skipjack, Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda]
3: able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound [syn: click beetle, skipjack, snapping beetle]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural skipjacks or skipjack) Date: 1703 1. any of various fishes (as a ladyfish or bluefish) that jump above or are active at the surface of the water; especially skipjack tuna 2. a sailboat with vertical sides and a bottom similar to a flat V

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 (in full skipjack tuna) a small striped Pacific tuna, Katsuwonus pelamus, used as food. 2 a click beetle. 3 a kind of sailing-boat used off the East coast of the US. Etymology: SKIP(1) + JACK(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jurel Ju"rel, n. (Zo["o]l.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevall['e], jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as C. fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice. 10. (Founding) (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. 11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. 12. (Zo["o]l.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. 13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird. 14. (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Saury Sau"ry, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Saurel Sau"rel, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T. picturatus of California. Called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Skipjack Skip"jack`, n. 1. An upstart. [Obs.] --Ford. 2. (Zo["o]l.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle. 3. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bluefish Blue"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.) 1. A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangid[ae], valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack. 2. A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labrid[ae]. Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.