skopstern.
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The saury pike.
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a1705 J. Ray Synopsis Avium & Piscium (1713) ii.165 Skipper Cornubiensium (corruptione vocis) skopster.
1865 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands IV. 141 Skipper. Saury. Skopster.
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- to powder one's nose
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- to practise what one preaches
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- to praising
- to prate at
- to pray a tales
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- to pray the peace against a person
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