SKIPJACK

Skipjack

The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. It is a sailboat which succeeded the bugeye as the chief oystering boat on the bay, and remains in service due to laws restricting the use of powerboats in the Maryland state oyster fishery.

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skipjack

Noun

  1. Any of several unrelated fish.
    1. Several of the genus resembling tuna; Katsuwonus pelamis.
    2. Others: 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.
  2. An upstart.
  3. An elaterid; a click beetle.
  4. A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.


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