Indeed, the only difference is that if I had clapped my hands the grasshopper would have gone off like a skipjack, and after a sky-high leap would have landed struggling among the laurels; while the more I clapped my hands at my visitor, the longer he would have been delighted to stay.
"The Silent Isle"
Arthur Christopher Benson
"Between Lossing and skipjack siding-if we haven't passed the siding in the last two or three minutes.
"The Grafters"
Francis Lynde
skipjacks The wish-bone of a goose makes a good skipjack.
"What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes"
Dorothy Canfield Fisher