Skĭp'per, n.

noun

[D. & L. Ger. schipper, Dan. skipper, H. Ger. schiffer. See SKIPPER and SKIP.]

Sense 1. (Naut.) The master of a small trading or merchant vessel.

Sense 2. A boy employed on board a ship; a ship-boy. [Obs.]

Sense 3. [From skip.] A dancer.

Sense 4. A youngling; a young, thoughtless person; a giddy youth. Shak.

Sense 5. (Ichth.) The saury-pike; Scomberesox saurus.

Sense 6. The cheese maggot.

Sense 7. (Entom.) One of a family of lepidopterous insects, of which the genus Hesperia is the type;—so called from their peculiar, short, jerking flight. Baird.

An elongated fish with a long pointed snout and a forked tail. — Skipper. (5.)