Crossword-Solution: SKIMMER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skimmer | n. | One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed. |
| Skimmer | n. | 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. |
| Skimmer | n. | Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SKIMMER | anagram | MRSMIKE |
We have 20 clues for the answer “SKIMMER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| spoon with holes | 1 answer |
| rhynchops | 1 answer |
| person or thing that skims | 1 answer |
| Utensil used to remove cream | 1 answer |
| Headwear at Henley | 1 answer |
| Boater's bonnet | 1 answer |
| shearwater | 2 answers |
| SEABIRD flying close to water | 2 answers |
| LONG-winged seabird flying close to water | 2 answers |
| BIRD flying close to water | 2 answers |
| Wide-brimmed straw hat | 2 answers |
| long-winged sea bird | 2 answers |
| TERN-like bird | 2 answers |
| Wide-brimmed hat | 3 answers |
| Pool tool | 5 answers |
| straw hat | 6 answers |
| Coastal bird | 14 answers |
| Seabird | 17 answers |
| Ladle | 25 answers |
| Shore bird | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SKIMMER (5)
The motive of his return was shown by his helping himself to a cut piece of skimmer-cake that lay on a ledge beside where he had sat, and which he had apparently forgotten to take with him.
These statistics have been long before the world, and are dead figures to the Skimmer of things, but tell a dark tale to the Reader of things, so dark, that I pray Heaven to protect me, and all other weak inoffensive persons, from the protection of my Lord Chancellor in this kind.
They were Skimmer the Tree Swallow and his trim little wife, and the doorway of their home was a little round hole in the trunk of that apple-tree, a hole which had been cut some years before by one of the Woodpeckers.
Johnny used to delight in watching Skimmer dart out from beneath the branches of the trees and wheel and turn and glide, now sometimes high in the blue, blue sky, and again just skimming the tops of the grass, on wings which seemed never to tire.
But he liked still better the bits of gossip when Skimmer would sit in his doorway and chat about his neighbors of the Old Orchard and his adventures out in the Great World during his long journeys to and from the far-away South.
Quotes with SKIMMER (1)
This girl, this girl, and he a man with a business and a secretary and a house with a furnace and bills and a son and a roof with three shingles and a pretty birdpath made of stone that I sometimes see Mrs. Shaw, her tied back with a scarf, cleaning with a dainty skimmer. How does this man, a man like this, like any of them, come to walk at night and stand in a girl’s backyard, and then, smoking and looking up, suddenly feel himself helpless to bher bright magic?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1998–2016).