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Skitter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To move rapidly along a surface, usually with frequent light contacts or changes of direction; skip or glide quickly: lizards that skitter away when approached.

verb-intransitive. To fish by drawing a lure or baited hook over the surface of the water with a skipping movement.

v. To cause to skitter.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. to move hurriedly or as by twitching or bouncing

v. to make a skittering noise

n. A skittering movement.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip.

verb-intransitive. To pass or glide lightly or with quick touches at intervals; to skip; to skim.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To skim; pass over lightly.

In angling, to draw a baited hook or a spoon-hook along the surface of water by means of a rod and line: as, to skitter for pickerel.

n. The act of skittering, or gliding or skimming over with a light touch.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. glide easily along a surface

v. twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

v. cause to skip over a surface

v. to move about or proceed hurriedly

Word Usage

"Mid-album, the thin skitter of "Boiling Water" unfurls into a seriously nagging tune that will sound sweet in H&M."

Verb Form

skittered skittering skitters

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

glide twitch throw

Cross Reference

scamper scurry

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

skip skim

Same Context

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