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1 [1797] 1989 PULLING (ed Marshall) 139-40 The skipper who brot me this Letter...is a Brother in law to one of the younkers. 1987 POWELL 29 If the fish that was caught and sold was worth $100.00, the amount was cut in half, one for expenses, the other shared equally between the skipper and the sharemen.
2 1986 Evening Telegram 5 Mar, p. 24 'Those trout are too small to keep, I would let them go,' I said. 'I bring them home to the cats, skipper,' said one man.
4 1984 GOUGH 4 Bessie Sheppard paused and sized her up. 'Come on in and meet the Skipper. He's the one who decides if you'll get the job [as maid].'
5 1981 PADDOCK 24 "Camp Seven": Da skipper come--Oh, no, my frien',/Your pardon I must as'--/A second-'and is all we got/To do da skipper tas'! 1985 Terminology of Loggers 16 ~ the foreman or boss of a job.
