Category:Skipper

Skip"per, n.

1. One who, or that which, skips.

2. A young, thoughtless person. Shak.

3. (zoöl.)

Defn: the saury (scomberesox saurus).

4. The cheese maggot. See cheese fly, under cheese.

5. (zoöl.)

Defn: any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadæ; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Skipper Skip"per, n. Etym: [d. schipper. See shipper, and ship.]

1. (naut.)

Defn: the master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the Master, or captain, of any vessel.

2. A ship boy. [obs.] Congreve.