Skimmed
[skimd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Skim
Edited by Beverly
Examples
- He passed me at speed, hardly feeling the earth he skimmed, and seeing nothing on either hand. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Off she skimmed, bearing the cherub along, nor ever stopped, nor suffered him to stop, until she had pulled at the bell. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The crucible is now covered and the fusion kept up for about thirty-five minutes, when the dross is skimmed off, and the alloy found ready for use. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The coffee was gray with milk, and I skimmed the milk scum off the top with a piece of bread. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- In the centrifugal skimmer the milk is continuously poured in through a funnel, and the cream runs out continuously through one spout, and the skimmed milk at the other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I have just skimmed it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When she was serene she skimmed like a swallow, and that is how she was moving now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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