sky pilot
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noun Slang.
a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.
Origin of sky pilot
First recorded in 1880–85
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A sky-pilot is an ancient and honorable calling, but not for me.
Baseball Joe in the Central LeagueLester Chadwick
The sky-pilot found out pretty soon that he was out of his element.
No, I accepted, and sent for the sky-pilot to do the job, and the happy couple never knew of the break.
Nothing is more comic than the sailor's aversion to the person nautically recognised as the "sky-pilot."
Windjammers and Sea TrampsWalter Runciman
But call him "sky-pilot" and he starts up like Macbeth at the ghost of Banquo, exclaiming "Come in any other form but that!"
Flowers of FreethoughtGeorge W. Foote
sky pilot
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