
I will have to wait until my skipper is back for lates on Wednesday to hear all the war stories. The man who is the captain on your yacht is an example of the skipper. “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” Rick Horowitz: Hungry for Playoff Action!īoig the skipper, is in the harbor and Grief learns from his trader Ieremia of a banknote reading "The First Royal Bank of Fitu-Iva will pay to bearer on demand one pound sterling," the note signed "Chancellor of the Exchequer" Fulualea - a Fijian name meaning "feathers of the sun."
noun an officer who is licensed to command a merchant shipĪnd we've got Margot standing by with a certain skipper of a certain playoff-bound team, and I'll bet he knows all about post-season excitement. noun a student who fails to attend classes. noun the naval officer in command of a military ship. verb transitive To be the skipper of a shipįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship. noun sports The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling. skippernoun the naval officer in command of a military ship. noun A coach, director, or other leader. noun Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira. noun Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae. noun A person who skips, or fails to attend class. noun Agent noun of skip: one who skips. noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadæ - so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun (Zoöl.) The saury ( Scomberesox saurus). noun (Naut.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel. To command a ship command and drill (as sailors) serve as skipper to.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun Also the commander of any other body of men, as of a company of soldiers a leader. noun In cricket, the captain of a cricket eleven. To take shelter in a barn, shed, or other rude lodging: sometimes with indefinite it. noun A barn an outhouse a shed or other place of shelter used as a lodging. noun The saury pike, Scomberesox saurus. skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered) (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed. noun A skipjack, snapping-bug, or click-beetle. skipper (plural skippers) A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night. noun One of certain water-beetles or -boatmen of the family Notonectidæ. noun The larva of the cheese-fly, Piophila casei a cheese-hopper. noun A hesperian any butterfly of the family Hesperiidæ: so called from their quick, darting, or jerky flight. noun A trifling, thoughtless person a skipjack. noun One who or that which skips or jumps a leaper a dancer. noun The master of a small trading or merchant vessel a sea-captain hence, in familiar use, one having the principal charge in any kind of vessel.