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Glide along above a surface
Answer for the clue "Glide along above a surface ", 4 letters:
skim
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Word definitions for skim in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skim \Skim\, a. Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed . Skim coat , the final or finishing coat of plaster. Skim colter , a colter for paring off the surface of land. Skim milk , skimmed milk; milk from which the cream has been taken.
Usage examples of skim.
The rival aeroplane was now skimming above the water at a height of about a thousand feet.
Nick picked up the agenda for 1979 and skimmed through the pages, finding the first referral to Goldluxe on March 13, 1979.
As he spoke he raised his arbalest to his shoulder and was about to pull the trigger, when a large gray stork flapped heavily into view skimming over the brow of the hill, and then soaring up into the air to pass the valley.
The further precaution that if any dross be on the surface of the metal it shall be skimmed off and separately sampled and assayed is almost too obvious to require mention.
These are fitted with attemperators, and parachutes for the removal of yeast, in much the same way as in the skimming system.
Rather, they had resigned themselves and their budlings to less than their share of the wonders of the modern world: houses that thought, scudders and floaters, falqon-mail that flew from continent to continent where pitchens had only skimmed, communications that no longer called for nervograps, recordimals offering faithful transcriptions of the greatest thinkers and entertainers, newsimals and scentimals and haulimals, and the rest.
It was no skin off his nose if the average cowhand worked his ass off for just a dollar a day and grub, only to get skimmed by everybody from those check cashers to the barkeeps who jacked up the price of bar liquor on a payday weekend.
In the beginning, the tax code skimmed only a small percentage off the incomes of the very top earners -- taxpayers rich enough that they had little incentive to avoid taxes.
First Councillor had altered his exoskeletal posture, skimming over to them like a swimmer.
It was wintertime clear enough, for there were no larks rising on the hills or swooping plovers--only big flocks of skimming grey fieldfares, and strings of honking geese passing south, and solemn congregations of bustards, and in the wet places clouds of squattering wildfowl.
It was running out of juice, skimming low, ruby flimmer reflected in rain-stippled puddles.
Her gaze skimmed over Darby, who was in a deep conversation with General Manager Clark Gamache, and landed on Luc where he leaned against the end of the bar, talking to a tall blond woman in a white slip dress.
Then she saw a long line of Canada geese, necks outstretched and wings flapping hard, skim the tops of the trees.
From being alone in the Void until your mind screams for contactfrom skimming whole planets with your thoughts, hungering for the touch of a familiar soul.
He skimmed over the episode of the Kebar Canal to get to the court session and his garden visit with Tamar.