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skipjack 9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also
the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
10. (Founding)
(a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the
metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern;
also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
(b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a
furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
attached.
12. (Zo["o]l.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida
and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack,
shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its
rapid successive leaps from the water.
13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.
14. (Mech.)
(a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or
polishing a surface of stone.
(b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
polishing or grinding. skipjackSaury 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. Skipjack
Skipjack Skip"jack`, n.
1. An upstart. [Obs.] --Ford.
2. (Zo["o]l.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the
common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish,
the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the
runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
4. (Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped
cross section.
skipjackBluefish Blue"fish`, n. (Zo["o]l.)
1. A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the
family Carangid[ae], valued as a food fish, and widely
distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and
Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in
Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.
2. A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the
family Labrid[ae].
Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes;
as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.
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