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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SKIP'PER, n.
1. The master of a small trading vessel.
2. (from skip.) A dancer.
3. A youngling; a young thoughtless person.
4. The hornfish, so called.
5. The cheese maggot.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a student who fails to attend classes
2: an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship [syn: master, captain, sea captain, skipper]
3: the naval officer in command of a military ship [syn: captain, skipper] v
1: work as the skipper on a vessel

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 13th century 1. any of various erratically active insects (as a click beetle or a water strider) 2. one that skips 3. saury 4. any of a superfamily (Hesperioidea, especially family Hesperiidae) of lepidopterous insects that visibly differ from the typical butterflies especially in having stout bodies, smaller wings, and usually hooked antennae II. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle Dutch schipper, from schip ship; akin to Old English scip ship — more at ship Date: 14th century 1. the master of a ship; especially the master of a fishing, small trading, or pleasure boat 2. the captain or first pilot of an airplane 3. a person in a position of leadership; especially a baseball team's manager III. transitive verb (skippered; skippering) Date: 1893 1. to act as skipper of (as a boat) 2. to act as coach of (as a team)

Britannica Concise

Any of some 3,000 lepidopteran species (family Hesperiidae) named for their fast (up to 20 mph, or 30 kph), darting flight. The head and stout body of the adult skipper resemble a moth's, but most skippers hold the first pair of wings vertically at rest, as butterflies do. Most skippers are diurnal and lack the wing-coupling structures typical of moths. Larvae feed mostly on legumes and grasses, usually living inside folded or rolled leaves that may be woven together. They pupate in a thin cocoon of silk or silk and leaves.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a sea captain, esp. the master of a small trading or fishing vessel. 2 the captain of an aircraft. 3 the captain of a side in games. --v.tr. act as captain of. Etymology: ME f. MDu., MLG schipper f. schip SHIP 2. n. 1 a person who skips. 2 any brown thick-bodied butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.

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

Skipper Skip"per, n. 1. One who, or that which, skips. 2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak. 3. (Zo["o]l.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus). 4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. 5. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiad[ae]; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Skipper Skip"per, n. [D. schipper. See Shipper, and Ship.] 1. (Naut.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel. 2. A ship boy. [Obs.] --Congreve.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(skippers, skippering, skippered) 1. You can use skipper to refer to the captain of a ship or boat. ...the skipper of an English fishing boat... Gunfire, skipper! = captain N-COUNT; N-VOC 2. You can use skipper to refer to the captain of a sports team. The England skipper is confident. = captain N-COUNT: usu supp N 3. To skipper a team or a boat means to be the captain of it. He skippered the second Rugby XV... = captain VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Master (of a small vessel), sea-captain. 2. (Ich.) Saury-pike (Scomberesox saurus). 3. (Ent.) Cheese maggot.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A barn. Cant.--Also the captain of a Dutch vessel.

Moby Thesaurus

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