noun
- a small round box or container, especially one used to protect a seal or document
Usage: archaic; historical
Examples
- The ancient charter was kept in a decorated skippet.
- Medieval scribes often stored their official seals in wooden skippets.
- The museum displayed a collection of ornate skippets used by royal courts.
- Each important document had its own protective skippet.
- The leather skippet contained the monastery’s most precious seal.