skippet

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/ˈskɪpɪt/

noun

A small boat; a skiff.

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Meanings

nounskippet (plural skippets)

plural skippets

  1. obsoleteA small boat; a skiff.

    Vpon the banck they sitting did espy / A daintie damzell, dressing of her heare, / By whom a litle skippet floting did appeare

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14
  2. A small, round box used for keeping documents and seals or for covering seals attached to documents

Origin

Compare Icelandic skip, English skipper. See ship.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with skippet

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Cite this entry
APA

skippet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skippet

MLA

“skippet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skippet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skippet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skippet.

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