Leader of a baseball team or boat

Usage examples of skipper.

The Skipper apparently had reacted more angrily, but the general line of discussion was the same.

Phillips, the skipper of Torpedo Six, who was assigned a liaison mission over the island.

Edwards had designed the special instrumentation for the Barracuda and the Bluefin that monitored the thermal variations in the water surrounding the submarine, giving the skipper a constant readout of temperature differentials.

I am allowing my emotions to outrun my reason, it is only because my son was and still is the skipper of the Barracuda .

Tommy punch the numbers into the radar as the longliner skipper read them off.

The skipper of our cargo boat roused me just as we turned, putting under my sleepy nostrils a handful of toasted beans on a leaf, and a small cup full of something that was not coffee, but smelt as good as that matutinal beverage always does to the tired traveller.

The conduct of the British skipper, Lieutenant-Commander Gerard Roope, was superb.

The skipper was Cornelis Schouten--De Schipper was Cornel is Sthouten, daar hij op den 13 Januarij 1628 het cognossement van de lading teekent.

Scraggs and The Squarehead partook first of the ham and eggs, coffee and bread which the skipper prepared.

He moved away for a little private talk with the skipper, but that gentleman was not in a conversational mood, and a sombre silence fell upon all until they were snugly berthed at Summercove, and the ladies, preceded by their luggage on a trolly, went off to look for lodgings.

The sail-boats, manned by weather-worn and weatherwise skippers, are rather for the pleasure of such older summer folks as have a taste for cod-fishing, which is here very good.

The skipper nodded and changed course to cut a straighter and shorter line across the Bay of Charco Azul.

There was, furthermore, a squint-eyed Lithuanian skipper, wanted for murder in Riga and for piracy in Pernambuco, who took them to Vladivostok and into the tranquil presence of a Nanking compradore with gold-encased fingernails and a charming taste in early Ming porcelain.

Skipper was one of the original dogs procured from the Army at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.

Fetzer wanted Dowell to nominate Skipper for a medal as well, because both men agreed that were it not for the timely warnings provided by him and the other dogs, many Marines would have been killed.