Word Finder - skimmers

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A device that skims.

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A person who skims.

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Any of three species of bird in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.

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Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clams and large scallops.

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A ballet flat shoe.

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Any of the dragonflies in the genus Libellulidae.

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A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.

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A surface ship.

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A small, fast-moving spacecraft.

The family Laridae is composed of two chief groups, Larinae and Sterninae - the gulls and the terns, though two other subfamilies are frequently counted, the skuas (Stercorariinae), and that formed by the single genus Rhynchops, the skimmers; but there seems no strong reason why the former should not be referred to the Larinae and the latter to the Sterninae.

The town of Bougie was then the most notorious haunt of these "skimmers of the sea."

Made from high grade acrylic these skimmers can be used in aquaria up to 350 UK gallons.

Pete Sutton fished peg 70 and took a good 30lb of skimmers, roach and the odd better bream to 3lb.

I started off on pole fished fluro pinkie on the near side shelf and was immediately into small roach, perch and skimmers.

An Osprey, Black Skimmers, Willets and Laughing Gulls sat on the exposed sandbars of Río San Cristóbal.

Jeff Richards caught roach to 1lb, and good size perch, and up to Sunday he had caught more skimmers than roach.

He did find a few more keeled skimmers, two of whom were mating and the female laying eggs.

Second was Dave Cook using similar tactics taking seven bream and a few skimmers from Peg 39.

With a catch between them of Roach, Perch and three good skimmers they recorded their 3 rd medal in 4 years.

Made up mainly of bream, Chris had 11 bream to 6lb and lots of skimmers and roach for a good 80lb bag.

Surface skimmers By installing surface skimmers you can further prevent the build up of foam.

He caught five big bream and a few skimmers for a combined total of 23lb 14oz (peg 1).

The tench run to about 5lbs and average between 2lbs and 3lbs whilst the bream run to 2lbs with plenty of skimmers.

Since the technology of skimmers is getting more and more sophisticated all the time, it can be difficult to spot.

In the summer, fedoras and driving caps gave way to the straw Panama hat or the shallow, flat-topped hats known as boaters or skimmers.

They are pink skimmers with a cut-out design and one-inch demi-wedge heels.