skipper

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who or that which skips or jumps; a leaper; a dancer.
• noun A locust.
• noun A trifling, thoughtless person; a skipjack.
• noun In entomology:
• noun A hesperian; any butterfly of the family Hesperiidæ: so called from their quick, darting, or jerky flight. Also called hopper. See cut under Hesperia.
• noun The larva of the cheese-fly, Piophila casei; a cheese-hopper. See cut under cheese-fly.
• noun One of certain water-beetles or -boatmen of the family Notonectidæ. See cut under water-boatman.
• noun A skipjack, snapping-bug, or click-beetle. See cut under click-beetle.
• noun The saury pike, Scomberesox saurus. See cut under saury.
• noun Same as skip, 4.
• To move with short skips; skip.
• noun The master of a small trading or merchant vessel; a sea-captain; hence, in familiar use, one having the principal charge in any kind of vessel.
• noun A barn; an outhouse; a shed or other place of shelter used as a lodging.
• To take shelter in a barn, shed, or other rude lodging: sometimes with indefinite it.
• noun Same as climbing-fish, 2.
• noun In cricket, the captain of a cricket eleven.
• noun Also the commander of any other body of men, as of a company of soldiers; a leader.
• To command a ship; command and drill (as sailors); serve as skipper to.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Naut.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
• noun obsolete A ship boy.
• noun One who, or that which, skips.
• noun A young, thoughtless person.
• noun (Zoöl.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
• noun The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
• noun (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadæ; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
• noun A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
• noun Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae
• noun Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira
• noun nautical The master of a ship. (literally, 'shipper')
• noun A coach, director, or other leader.
• noun sports The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
• verb transitive To be the skipper of a ship

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the naval officer in command of a military ship
• noun a student who fails to attend classes
• verb work as the skipper on a vessel
• noun an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship