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skitter

Speech parts

1. skitter - Noun

2. skitter - Verb

Meaning

to move about or proceed hurriedly

cause to skip over a surface

twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

glide easily along a surface

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Sharp it away, lad, sharp it away,” the burly guardsman said, making the blade skitter across the whetstone, "lest otherways ye'll be a girl afore ye're a man. Tad Williams

so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground Source: Internet

Skip a stone across the pond Source: Internet

Graduating high schoolers had to skitter across private land to splash in Watmough Bay. Source: Internet

The game is full of deliberate graphical that skitter across the screen, with flickering overlays that pop up when the player users their PHI augmented reality device to hack systems and scan areas. Source: Internet

And the words on the snowflake — I can’t get the gist of what it is, but words like peaceful, grateful, poem, skitter, unceasing, return… make me just know it’s a fabulous book to read, under blankets. Source: Internet

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