skip

Multiple Entries:
  skip    skep  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skip1

▶verb (skips, skipping, skipped)

• 1 move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce.

  ■ jump lightly over.

• 2 Brit. jump repeatedly over a rope which is held at both ends and turned over the head and under the feet.

  ■ N. Amer. jump over (a rope) in such a way.

• 3 omit (a section of something or a stage in a sequence).

• 4 fail to attend or deal with; miss.

  ■ informal leave quickly and secretly.

• 5 throw (a stone) so that it skims the surface of water.

▶noun

• 1 a skipping movement.

• 2 N. Amer. informal a person who defaults or absconds.

– origin ME: prob. of Scand. origin.

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skip2

▶noun

• 1 Brit. a large transportable open-topped container for bulky refuse.

• 2 a cage or bucket in which workers or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries.

• 3 variant spelling of skep.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skip3

▶noun the captain or director of a side at bowls or curling. ▶verb (skips, skipping, skipped) act as skip of.

– origin C19 (orig. Scots): abbrev. of skipper1.

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skep /skɛp/ (also skip)

▶noun

• 1 a straw or wicker beehive.

• 2 archaic a wooden or wicker basket.

– origin OE sceppe ‘basket’, from ON skeppa ‘basket, bushel’.