skippet

English

Etymology

Compare Icelandic skip, English skipper. See ship.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɪpɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

Noun

skippet (plural skippets)

1. (obsolete) A small boat; a skiff.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14:

     Vpon the banck they sitting did espy / A daintie damzell, dressing of her heare, / By whom a litle skippet floting did appeare

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