skimmer

noun

• 1a person or thing that skims.
• a utensil or device for removing a substance from the surface of a liquid: a perforated skimmer

• 2a hydroplane, hydrofoil, hovercraft, or other vessel that has little or no displacement at speed.

• 3 informal a close-fitting dress: our collection includes wraps, skimmers, and pleated coat dresses

• 4chiefly North American a flat, broad-brimmed straw hat: his straw skimmer

• 5a long-winged seabird related to the terns, feeding by flying low over the water surface with its knife-like extended lower mandible immersed.

  • Genus Rynchops, family Rynchopidae (or Laridae): three species, one each in Africa, Asia, and America

• 6North American term for darter (sense 3).