A senior deputy administrator; a vice-president of academic affairs.
The head of various other ecclesiastical bodies, even (rare, obsolete) muezzins.
A dean: the head of a cathedral chapter.
A mayor: the chief magistrate of a town, particularly (Scotland) the head of a burgh or (historical) the former chiefs of various towns in France, Flanders, or (by extension) other Continental European countries.
A steward or seneschal: a medieval agent given management of a feudal estate or charged with collecting fees; (obsolete, sometimes as ~ of Paradise or ~ of Heaven) a title of the archangel Michael.
The head of various colleges and universities.
Any manager or overseer in a medieval or early modern context.
The minister of the chief Protestant church of a town or region in Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia.
A constable: a medieval or early modern official charged with arresting, holding, and punishing criminals.
An officer of the military police, particularly provost marshal or provost sergeant.
An assistant fencing master.
A prior: an abbot's second-in-command.
A college servant.
A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
A skip car.
The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
A charge of syrup in the pans.
A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
skywave propagation
The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
A beehive.
A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
To have insufficient ink transfer.
To leap about lightly.
Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
To jump rope.
To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
To leap lightly over.