[
US
/ˈskɪmɝ/
]
[ UK /skˈɪmɐ/ ]
[ UK /skˈɪmɐ/ ]
NOUN
- 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
- a rapid superficial reader
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
How To Use skimmer In A Sentence
- I knew it was a scam, selling to these offshore skimmers.
- The skimmer removes detritus that would otherwise sink and contribute to algae growth.
- The Abanaki Model 8 belt skimmer may be part of an emergency oil spill system, in which wastewater flows though a coalescer tank, is skimmed, and then passes though filters. Business Wire Travel News
- Everywhere around the margins there were shoal fish, creatures almost identical to skimmer bream and roach.
- There were a few skimmers still moving about in the harbor and their sleek bodies glowed in the red dusk light.
- Bookstore skimmers will, however, be disappointed to discover that the dirty parts aren't that dirty.
- Burkett said there are thousands of avocets and skimmers on the Bolivar Flats now, as well as white pelicans, terns and other coastal species.
- On the coasts, the Caribbean to the east and the Pacific to the west, there were mangrove swamps with frigate birds, great egrets, pelicans, skimmers, sanderlings and vultures.
- Bar-winged skimmers range throughout the southeastern United States from Louisiana and Florida north to New Jersey.
- He topped the contest on Horseshoe Lake with a cracking net of bream and skimmers scaling an impressive 77 lb 14 oz.
