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Skimmer

noun

A rapid superficial reader.

A cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids.

A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown. Synonyms: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, straw hat.

Gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food.

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"Skimmer" Quotes from Famous Books

... day came Skimmer the Swallow and brought him news of the hard times which had come to the rest of the Great World and how as a result the big and the strong were hunting the small and the weak in order that they themselves might live. When Skimmer had gone, Yap-Yap ...

— Mother West Wind "Where" Stories • Thornton W. Burgess

... pigs' feet for supper that night; and I don't think I ever tasted better in my life. I eat pretty free of them, as I always did of anything I liked, and we wound up with some of her canned peaches, that she'd got out to coax me to eat, and cream on 'em 'most as thick as butter: she had a skimmer with holes into it that she always skimmed the cream with for our own use. She'd made as good a pot of coffee as I ever tasted. And when I'd had all I wanted, I felt a good deal better, and I says to her,—'I'll fret over it no more, Gracie: if it's his'n, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various

Words linked to "Skimmer" : cookware, Rynchops, reader, skim, chapeau, Panama, cooking utensil, hat, lid, leghorn, coastal diving bird, genus Rynchops, boater