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Skipjack
- noun - able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound
- medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
- oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
Skiplane
- unknown - Aircraft fitted with skis.
Skippers
- noun - a student who fails to attend classes
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
- work as the skipper on a vessel
Skipping
- verb - bound off one point after another
- bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
- cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
- intentionally fail to attend; "cut class"
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
Skirling
- verb - make a shrill, wailing sound; "skirling bagpipes"
- play the bagpipes
Skirmish
- noun - a minor short-term fight
- engage in a skirmish
Skirrets
- noun - an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root
Skirting
- verb - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
- being all around the edges; enclosing; "his encircling arms"; "the room's skirting board needs painting"
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
- form the edge of
- pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast"
Skitters
- verb - cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
- glide easily along a surface
- to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"
- twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water