SKIMMER


Meaning of SKIMMER in English

■ noun

1》 a person or thing that skims.

2》 a long-winged seabird which feeds by skimming over the water surface with its knife-like lower mandible immersed. [Genus Rynchops : three species.]

3》 North American term for darter (in sense 3).

4》 chiefly N. Amer. a flat broad-brimmed straw hat.

Origin

ME: from OFr. escumoir , from escumer 'skim', from escume 'scum'.

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