Crossword clues for skipjack
skipjack
- Certain tuna ... or what this puzzle's 10 starred clues do
- Very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
- Able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound
- Medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters
- Reaches 75 pounds
- Oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic
- Less valued than tuna
- Bluefish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saurel \Sau"rel\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially T. trachurus, or T. saurus, of Europe and America, and T. picturatus of California. Called also skipjack, and horse mackerel.
Jurel \Ju"rel\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts ( Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevall['e], jack, buffalo jack, skipjack, yellow mackerel, and sometimes, improperly, horse mackerel. Other species of Caranx (as Caranx fallax) are also sometimes called jurel.
Runner \Run"ner\, n. [From Run.]
One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
A detective. [Slang, Eng.]
--Dickens.A messenger.
--Swift.A smuggler. [Colloq.]
--R. North.One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
(Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
(Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
--Totten.One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
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(Founding)
A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
(Zo["o]l.) A food fish ( Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
(Zo["o]l.) Any cursorial bird.
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(Mech.)
A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Bluefish \Blue"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A large voracious fish ( Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangid[ae], valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.
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A West Indian fish ( Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labrid[ae].
Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.
Bonito \Bo*ni"to\, n.; pl. Bonitoes. [Sp. & Pg. bonito, fr. Ar. bain[=i]t and bain[=i]th.] [Often incorrectly written bonita.] (Zo["o]l.)
A large tropical fish ( Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.
any of a variety of scombroid fishes of the genera Sarda or Euthynnus, with a size intermediate between those of the smaller mackerels and the tunas. It is applied especially to the skipjack tuna ( Euthynnus pelamis, syn. Katsuwonus pelamis, formerly Sarda Mediterranea, also called skipjack) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and ( Sarda Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. These are large and active fishes, of a blue color above and silver below, with black oblique stripes.
--MW10The medregal ( Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.
The cobia or crab eater ( Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several unrelated fish. 2 # Several of the genus (taxlink Euthynnus genus noshow=1) resembling tuna. 3 # ''Katsuwonus pelamis''. 4 # The (vern common bluefish pedia=1) 5 # The alewife 6 # The bonito 7 # The butterfish 8 # The (vern cutlass fish pedia=1) 9 # The jurel 10 # The leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus (taxlink Oligoplites genus noshow=1)) 11 # The runner. 12 # The saurel. 13 # The saury. 14 # The threadfish. 15 (context obsolete English) An upstart. 16 An elaterid; a click beetle. 17 A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
WordNet
n. oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito [syn: skipjack tuna, Euthynnus pelamis]
medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna [syn: Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda]
able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound [syn: click beetle, snapping beetle]
Wikipedia
In cryptography, Skipjack is a block cipher—an algorithm for encryption—developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Initially classified, it was originally intended for use in the controversial Clipper chip. Subsequently, the algorithm was declassified and now provides a unique insight into the cipher designs of a government intelligence agency.
Skipjack may refer to:
The skipjack is a traditional fishing boat used on Chesapeake Bay for oyster dredging. It is a sailboat which succeeded the bugeye as the chief oystering boat on the bay, and it remains in service due to laws restricting the use of powerboats in the Maryland state oyster fishery.
Usage examples of "skipjack".
The deck-hand brought the skipjack bonito over the side and cradled him lovingly in his arms.
He thought of the chill winter months spent dredging, the rise and fall of the skipjack over hard chop, the long, often frustrating search for oyster, for rockfish, for a living.
Now, only a decade later, cod, haddock, and flounder were off the critical list, shrimp and halibut were once more plentiful, and schools of yellowfin and skipjack tuna were being spotted off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Skipjack could be decrypted via a secret password known only to the NSA.
Skipjack could be decrypted via a secretpassword known only to the NSA.
He had intended to buy back his familys share in the skipjack, and he could have done so, for Caveny offered it, but now a skipjack was selling for six thousand and there was no possibility of repurchase.
One evening four Patamoke skipjacks assembled at one of the beds to discuss strategies that might restrain the Virginians, and one captain who had a safe crew, in that none had been shanghaied, said that since he was going ashore, he would telegraph the governor of Maryland, requesting armed force to repulse the Virginian invaders.
It was known throughout the fleet as “the side-assed skipjack with the nigger crew,” but it was in no way impeded, for Captain Jimbo had to be recognized as a first-class waterman.
This did not imperil the skipjack, but if the drag continued, its racing speed would be impeded, so two men jumped to the pendant of the centerboard and raised it until the lad cried, “No mud!
With burned hands and sooty faces they began to cheer and throw beer cans and trim their sails, but they were impeded by a situation which had never before developed in a skipjack race: the intense heat of the gasoline fire had melted some of the dacron lines into blobs of expensive goo.
In October 1895 the skipjack Eden out of Patamoke made its first sortie on the oyster beds.
Since the Jessie T had an all-Patamoke crew, it returned to that port each Saturday night, bringing huge catches of oysters for sale to the local packing plants, and because those who sailed the skipjack were devoutly religious--even the profane Turlocks--they did not sneak out of port late on Sunday afternoon, as some did, but waited till Monday morning, an act of devotion for which they expected God to lead them to the better beds.
The pre-race meeting of skipjack crews was held at the Patamoke Club, and the mood was established by Captain Boggs, a towering black from Deal Island, known to his men as the Black Bastard: The Nelly Benson observes ony one rule.
He gripped the line and pulled a small skipjack tuna, no longer than his foot, out of the water.
But as in most skipjacks, no one moved a spoon until the cook had taken his place at the small table and reached out his large black hands to grasp those of Captain Turlock and Mate Caveny, whose free hands sought those of the two crewmen.