skirter

British  

/ ˈskɜːtə /

noun

1. a man who skirts fleeces See skirt

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Example Sentences

It may be urged too that the method much removes any necessity for noise in calling to a dog—whereas, with a team trained to the "down-charge," however highly broken, it will occasionally happen that the keeper—or assistant—has to rate some excited skirter for not instantly "dropping."

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Fire at no skirter, or chance shot.

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Skirter.—A hound which is wide of the pack, or a man riding wide of the hounds, is called a skirter.

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And yet, to Madame Chrysanthème, Divided Skirter, Primrose Dame, And all the rest, are but a name; It therefore cannot happen ease Is yours, although men dress like frights, And even have election fights; One thing is wanting—Women's Rights, O fin-de-siècle Japanese!

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He doubted, indeed, whether he would take Desperate, who was an incorrigible skirter; but as she was not much worse in this respect than Chatterer or Harmony, who was also an inveterate babbler, and the pack would look rather short without them, he reserved the point for further consideration, as the judges say.

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