skip v EDD ~ v1 2 for sense 2.
1 In
children's pastime, to jump from one pan of floating ice to another; COPY.
C 65-4 Skippin' pans; jumping from one pan of ice to another. M
62-23 Skipping pans or flipsying over the pans of ice.
2 To throw
a flat stone over the surface of the water; of such a stone, to bounce a number of times
on the surface (Q 67-59); SKATE, SKITTER v.
C 67-22 A counting
rhyme is used in Change Islands to count the number of times a rock skips when it is
skimmed over the water in the game called 'skippin' rocks.'
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