skippet

noun — 2 senses

skippet

noun

/ˈskɪpɪt/

Etymology Compare Icelandic skip, English skipper. See ship.

1

Obsolete A small boat; a skiff.

  • Vpon the banck they sitting did espy / A daintie damzell, dressing of her heare, / By whom a litle skippet floting did appeare1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14:
2

A small, round box used for keeping documents and seals or for covering seals attached to documents

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