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ˈskimming-dish
[skimming vbl. n. 4.]
1. A dish suitable for skimming with; esp. one used in skimming milk or in cheese-making.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 333/1 A little broad flat Dish made of Wood, called by Dairy Women a Scimming Dish. 1713Addison Guardian No. 124, Who on her skimming-dish carves her name. 1785W. W. Pepys in Roberts Mem. Han. More (1835) I. 384 To send you a skimming-dish,..towards setting-up housekeeping. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1017 The operator stirs up the unbroken curd from the bottom with the skimming-dish. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede ix, Have you become an amateur of damp quarries and skimming-dishes?
b. fig. Something comparable to a skimming-dish in respect of shallowness.
1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. x, The adherents of the inexplicable more than hinted that their antagonists were..mere skimming-dishes in point of depth. 1885Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 11/1 The Englishman not inaptly calls the American's boat a ‘skimming dish’.
c. U.S. A shallow yacht-built type of boat used on the coast of Florida.
1884J. A. Henshall Camping in Florida ii. 15 The boats are..of light draught and center-boarders. There are the ‘skimming-dish’, the ‘pumpkin-seed’ and the ‘flat⁓iron’ models.
2. attrib. in † skimming-dish hat.
1766Smollett Trav. I. vi. 99 That unshaken patriot still appears in the same..skimming-dish hat, and slit sleeve. 1773J. Berridge Wks. (1864) 193 A dozen skimming dish hats, such as gentry wear. 1855Willis's Current Notes V. 58/2 The Skimming-Dish Hat. |