skipper : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: skipper	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for skipper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
skipper n a student who fails to attend classes an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship Synonym(s): master, captain, sea captain, skipper the naval officer in command of a military ship Synonym(s): captain, skipper v work as the skipper on a vessel
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Skipper \Skip"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, skips. 2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The saury ({Scomberesox saurus}). 4. The cheese maggot. See {Cheese fly}, under {Cheese}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family {Hesperiad[91]}; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.