skipper
skipper¹
Definition
skip·per (skip′ər)
noun
- a person or thing that skips
- saury
- any of a family (Hesperiidae) of mostly small, heavy-bodied butterflies, having threadlike antennae usually ending in a hook, and characterized by short, erratic bursts of flight
- any skipping insect
skipper²
Definition
skip·per (skip′ər)
noun
- the captain of a ship, esp. of a small ship or boat
- any leader, director, or captain
Etymology: ME < MDu schipper < schip, a ship
transitive verb
to act as skipper of
skipper
Synonyms
skipper
Usage Examples
Object
- yacht: By the end of the course you should have enough experience to safely skipper a small yacht in familiar waters by day.
- charter: The boats have performed well in racing and are offered for bare boat and skippered charter.
- boat: Go shark or mackerel fishing in hired skippered boats from Looe or dive with Looe Divers Club on the recently sunk warship wreck.
Adjective modifier
- grizzled: The work will provide a larger habitat for the rare and oddly names grizzled skipper, dingy skipper and green hairstreak butterflies.
- silver-spotted: The North Downs supports chalk grassland and Surrey acts as a stronghold for species such as the silver-spotted skipper.
- dingy: Cheshire's stronghold for the dingy skipper, a Local Biodiversity Action Plan species, is on Ashton's Flash.
- under-21: A former Scotland Under-21 skipper, Ian has captained Hibs since the departure of John O'Neil to Falkirk.
- inspirational: Ipswich will therefore utilize rider replacement for their inspirational skipper.
- injured: And new coaches Zimmerman and Moriarty joined injured skipper Lortie on the sideline to complete the victorious team.
Modifies a noun
- butterfly: Other spring highlights include dingy and grizzled skipper butterflies which are now found in only a few places in the county.
Noun used with modifier
- stand-in: Then Steve Sidwell, stand-in skipper for crocked Graham Murty, had a 25-yard pile-driver headed off the line by Forbes.
- trawler: A Cardiff trawler skipper later lost his ticket for a number of years for failing to stop and pick up the survivors.
- yacht: Flying Fish trains and recruits yacht skippers and sail, dive, surf, windsurf, ski and snowboard instructors.
- charter: No injuries occurred to the divers but the competence of the charter boat skippers operating in the area was called into question.
- boat: John Eccles, Marine Operative, former Trinity House pilot boat skipper.
- fishing: Sea Angling Trips on MFV Girl Kilda These are with a deep sea fishing skipper of 20 years experience.
Possessives
- armband: The popular Frenchman has been handed the skipper's armband by manager Dave Jones.
Preposition: of
- yacht: Their brief was to search for three teenage boys who were reported missing by the skipper of the yacht Black Pig.
- vessel: With the help of the skipper of a nearby fishing vessel, the skipper was finally recovered and air lifted to hospital.
- boat: By contrast the skipper of the second boat was Jim.
skipper Quotes
The king sits in Dunfermline town, Drinking the blude-red wine; 'O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?'
