Skimmer is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SKIMMER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a seabird that skims the water
• a person or thing that skims.
• a utensil or device for removing a substance from the surface of a liquid
• a device or craft designed to collect oil spilled on water
• a hydroplane, hydrofoil, hovercraft, or other vessel that has little or no displacement at speed.
• a close-fitting dress
• a flat, broad-brimmed straw hat
• a long-winged seabird related to the terns, feeding by flying low over the water surface with its knife-like extended lower mandible immersed.
• One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.
• Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.
• Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
• a rapid superficial reader
• a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
• a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
• gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
• person or thing that skims
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that skims

Words related to SKIMMER

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Words that contain SKIMMER

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How to use SKIMMER in a sentence

• Have a skimmer ready, and as soon as they brown take them out and lay on brown paper in the oven, and put in another handful.
• He stood staring at me with such manifest appreciation of the situation in his laughing eyes, that I felt a barbarous impulse to throw the skimmer of hot corn at him.
• When of a pale golden brown remove with a skimmer and drain on blotting paper.
• When the potatoes are tender, remove them with a perforated skimmer, leaving the water still boiling.
• By the time the soup is well heated, it will be delicately flavored, and the pieces of onion or celery may be removed with a fork or a skimmer.
• Take out the eggs one by one on a skimmer, and serve in egg-saucers, or on slices of nicely browned toast moistened with a little sweet cream, as preferred.
• When the yolk is cooked, remove it from the water with a skimmer.
• Boil about fifteen minutes, then lift out the brains, with a perforated skimmer, and lay upon a platter to cool.
• Boil the peaches until tender, then take up with a perforated skimmer and lay them in your fruit dish.
• Take them up with a skimmer, drain and serve hot, on toast.
• As soon as the whites of the eggs are boiled, take up carefully with a perforated skimmer and lay in cold water.
• Take them up with a perforated skimmer, lay on a large platter, sprinkle with pulverized sugar.
• When ready to put the prepared fruit in the jars slip a broad skimmer under a jar and lift it and drain free of water.
• When ready to put the fruit in the jars, put a broad skimmer under one, lift it and drain off the water.
• Take them out with a skimmer and lay on flat dishes to cool.
• Take out the fruit with a perforated skimmer and spread upon dishes to cool.
• Lift out carefully with perforated skimmer, put in glass jars.
• Take them out with a perforated skimmer and spread upon dishes to cool.
• Heat slowly and boil until tender, then remove them with a perforated skimmer, and spread upon dishes to cool.
• Take up the cherries with a perforated skimmer and boil the syrup fifteen minutes.
• If fame speaks true, there is not a more dexterous navigator of the narrow seas than thyself, Master Skimmer.
• The Viscount sought no further solution of the reason why the Skimmer had left him so hurriedly.
• Here the Skimmer was induced to sheer more into the centre of the passage, in order to avoid the eddies formed by the point, and to preserve the whole benefit of the current.
• A sudden thought glanced on the mind of the Skimmer, and he lost no time in attempting to execute its suggestion.
• The manner of the Skimmer, the voluntary character of his communication, its probability, and the means by which his knowledge had been obtained, united to confirm his truth.
• For a moment, it seemed, however, as if the Skimmer of the Seas would overcome the confusion.
• The Skimmer glanced his eye about him, on regaining the poop, and appeared to scan the amount and quality of the physical force that was still at their disposal.
• The forms of the Skimmer and his assistants were visible, in the midst of the gallant gear, perched on the giddy yards.
• The Skimmer caught a rope, and still holding it in his hand, he descended to the quarter-deck, on which he at first trusted his weight with jealous caution.
• The Skimmer glanced an eye about him, and seizing Seadrift by the waist, as if the mimic seaman had been a child, he pushed forward between the ridge-ropes.
• The skilful and active seamen, directed and aided by Ludlow and the Skimmer, had made a simple but happy disposition of those boy ant materials on which their all now depended.
• Even the Skimmer and Ludlow watched in speechless interest, the tardy movements of the ship.
• Although the burgher had often seen the supposed sister of the Skimmer in her female habiliments, she never before had struck him as a being of so rare beauty as at that moment.

Similar words containing SKIMM without suffix er

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