skipper

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SKIP'PER, noun 1. The master of a small trading vessel. 2. (from skip.) A dancer. 3. A youngling; a young thoughtless person. 4. The hornfish, so called. 5. The cheese maggot.
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