Skipper vs. Sild

Skippernoun

(nautical) The master of a ship.

Skippernoun

A coach, director, or other leader.

Skippernoun

(sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.

Skippernoun

Agent noun of skip: one who skips.

Skippernoun

A person who skips, or fails to attend class.

Skippernoun

Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.

Skippernoun

Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.

Skippernoun

(obsolete) A young, thoughtless person.

Skippernoun

The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly, in Piophilidae, which leaps to escape predators.

Skippernoun

A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.

Skipperverb

(transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.

Skipperverb

(intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.

Skippernoun

One who, or that which, skips.

Skippernoun

A young, thoughtless person.

Skippernoun

The saury (Scomberesox saurus).

Skippernoun

The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.

Skippernoun

Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadæ; - so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

Skippernoun

The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

Skippernoun

A ship boy.

Skippernoun

a student who fails to attend classes

Skippernoun

an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

Skippernoun

the naval officer in command of a military ship

Skipperverb

work as the skipper on a vessel

Sildnoun

Any young herring (other than a sprat), especially if canned and processed in Scandinavia for sale as a sardine.

Sildnoun

any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway