1. A cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
   "She used a skimmer to remove the foam from the boiling soup"
    
2. Gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
   "We watched the skimmer gracefully skim the water's surface for fish"
    
3. A rapid superficial reader
   "As a skimmer, he often missed important details in the text"
    
4. A stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
   "She wore a skimmer hat to shield her face from the sun";
   - boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, straw hat

Derived forms: skimmers

Type of: chapeau [archaic], coastal diving bird, cooking utensil, cookware, hat, lid [informal], reader

Part of: genus Rynchops, Rynchops

Encyclopedia: Skimmer