Gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food

Usage examples of skimmer.

Instantly, the skimmer dropped, twisted, and spiked back up before Nitpicker got it under control.

Back then, she was vulnerable and alone for the first time in her life, with Skimmer undoubtedly more than willing to help her explore the sophisticated vampiric bloodletting techniques Ivy had gained in the time Piscary had been at her.

Ima Hooker with Sergeant Knever, but there was also a small detachment here on Sea Skimmer, and today was one of its twice-weekly riflery drills.

It was empty, however, on that chill spring morning when a small skimmer marked with the triple triangle of the Thearchy dropped to a parking terrace on the slope beneath it.

An infantryman still aboard his grounded skimmer caught the shimmer of a Molt tele porting in along the vector for which Hawker had warned.

Rawls palmed a powerstud on his skimmer, and the rusted groundcart flowed him to a corner of the room.

The skimmer headed off in a southeasterly direction, a reinvigorated Pip resting on the deck near his feet.

The sum, silver shape of the skimmer sharpened until it sped cleanly through the storm fronts.

Gerd Jemasze returned to the sky-car, floated it over the wagon shops to the indicated area: a storage lot for dozens of vehicles, of various styles and sizes, old and new, from a three-masted cargo schooner on eight ten-foot wheels, to a three-wheeled skimmer with a single unstayed mast.

Sid followed the stretcher back to the skimmer where an aidman had it grounded while he worked on the bleeding and strapped on some narco-spray nerve blocks.

Grasty, on the other hand, lay in the shade the skimmer offered and grunted when anyone spoke to him, refusing food but drinking avidly from the mug Andas filled at the stream edge and offered to him.

Inquisition battlecraft are waiting to escort his sacred skimmer to the chapel stage.

There, they struggled with the manual clamps until two of the meres from the new skimmer jumped stiffly down to help them lock the ship to the deck.

Moebius cubes that had transported the ergs, the parked skimmer, the kitchen and laundry annexes next to the tower, part of the old chemistry building on the Endymion campus, several stone dwellings, precisely half of the bridge over the Pinion River, and a few million metric tons of rock and subsoil.

Returning to the skimmer, she retrieved a pack with supplies: thermal blankets, homa, medical aids.