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skipper
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Skipper \Skip"per\, n.
1. One who, or that which, skips.
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2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak.
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3. (Zool.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
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4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
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5. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies
of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their
peculiar short, jerking flight.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster] 2. A ship boy. [Obs.] --Congreve. [1913 Webster]
