Hypertext Webster Gateway: "skipjack"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Jurel \Ju"rel\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts
({Caranx chrysos}), most abundant southward, where it is
valued as a food fish; -- called also {hardtail}, {horse
crevall['e]}, {jack}, {buffalo jack}, {skipjack}, {yellow
mackerel}, and sometimes, improperly, {horse mackerel}. Other
species of {Caranx} (as {C. fallax}) are also sometimes
called jurel.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
9. One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also
the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
10. (Founding)
(a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the
metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern;
also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
(b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a
furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
11. The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are
attached.
12. (Zo["o]l.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus}) of Florida
and the West Indies; -- called also {skipjack},
{shoemaker}, and {yellowtail}. The name alludes to its
rapid successive leaps from the water.
13. (Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.
14. (Mech.)
(a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or
polishing a surface of stone.
(b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for
polishing or grinding.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Saury \Sau"ry\, n.; pl. {Sauries}. [Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A slender marine fish ({Scomberesox saurus}) of Europe and
America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also
{billfish}, {gowdnook}, {gawnook}, {skipper}, {skipjack},
{skopster}, {lizard fish}, and {Egypt herring}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Saurel \Sau"rel\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any carangoid fish of the genus {Trachurus}, especially {T.
trachurus}, or {T. saurus}, of Europe and America, and {T.
picturatus} of California. Called also {skipjack}, and {horse
mackerel}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Skipjack \Skip"jack`\, n.
1. An upstart. [Obs.] --Ford.
2. (Zo["o]l.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the
common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish,
the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the
runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
4. (Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped
cross section.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bluefish \Blue"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
1. A large voracious fish ({Pomatomus saitatrix}), of the
family {Carangid[ae]}, valued as a food fish, and widely
distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and
Rhode Island coast it is called the {horse mackerel}, in
Virginia {saltwater tailor}, or {skipjack}.
2. A West Indian fish ({Platyglossus radiatus}), of the
family {Labrid[ae]}.
Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes;
as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
skipjack
n 1: oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but
less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if
not the same as oceanic bonito [syn: {skipjack tuna}, {Euthynnus
pelamis}]
2: medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and
Pacific waters; less valued than tuna [syn: {Atlantic
bonito}, {Sarda sarda}]
3: able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the
air with a clicking sound [syn: {click beetle}, {snapping
beetle}]
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