skimmer
an electronic device used surreptitiously to appropriate information from the magnetic strip on a credit or debit card for illegal use: Authorities have verified that skimmers were secretly installed at several local gas pumps.
any of several gull-like birds of the family Rynchopidae, that skim the water with the elongated lower mandible immersed while in search of food.
a stiff, wide-brimmed hat with a shallow flat crown, usually made of straw.
a woman's A-line dress with side darts that shape it slightly to the body.
Origin of skimmer
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How to use skimmer in a sentence
Robinson said that Admiral Allen had said that more skimmers are coming.
The Skimmers are gull-like in form, with long, slender body and long wings, spreading almost three feet.
Bird Lore, Volume I--1899 | VariousSkimmers nest in large communities, the same as do the Terns, laying their eggs in hollows in the sand.
The Bird Book | Chester A. ReedSkimmers are Tern-like birds having a very strangely developed bill.
The Bird Book | Chester A. ReedYoung Skimmers are said to have both mandibles of the same length, the abnormal development not appearing until after flight.
The Bird Book | Chester A. Reed
Skimmers nest in numbers on our Atlantic Coast from Virginia southward, laying their four eggs in a slight depression in the sand.
Color Key to North American Birds | Frank M. Chapman
British Dictionary definitions for skimmer
/ (ˈskɪmə) /
a person or thing that skims
any of several mainly tropical coastal aquatic birds of the genus Rhynchops, having long narrow wings and a bill with an elongated lower mandible for skimming food from the surface of the water: family Rynchopidae, order Charadriiformes
a flat perforated spoon used for skimming fat from liquids
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