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Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. Sauries. [Etymol. uncertain.]

(Zo["o]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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Skipper \Skip"per\, n.

1. One who, or that which, skips.

2. A young, thoughtless person. --Shak.

3. (Zo["o]l.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).

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

5. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiad[ae]; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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