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sky pilot

noun

Slang.
  1. a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.


sky pilot

noun

  1. slang.
    a chaplain in one of the military services
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sky pilot1

First recorded in 1880–85
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I imagined the wildflowers, plumes of Indian paintbrush, tight clusters of sky pilot, that would be born and wither and die without ever being seen by a human eye.

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It's us for th' sky pilot, an' then th' same range for life.

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You’re not wailing for a Sunday School and a sky pilot?”

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Jim had known him before he became a "sky pilot," and so fully did he believe him, that no one dared to say a word against him in his hearing.

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Some sailors staring through a deck light took him for a "sky pilot" reading the burial service for their fellow, but thought him over-long about it.

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