skirter

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noun One who skirts or goes around the borders of anything; specifically, in hunting, a huntsman or dog who goes around a high hedge, or gate, etc., instead of over or through it.
noun A dialectal form of squirter.

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That is the problem with the Nobama followers .... he is such a good skirter of issues that they don't even notice that he ADDRESSES NOTHING.

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_ -- A hound which is wide of the pack, or a man riding wide of the hounds, is called a skirter.

A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid 1846
He doubted, indeed, whether he would take Desperate, who was an incorrigible skirter; but as she was not much worse in this respect than

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833