"skimmingly" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From skimming + -ly.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1913, Captain R. F. Scott, Scott's Last Expedition Volume I:",
          "text": "Whether sleeping, quarrelling, or playing, whether curious, frightened, or angry, its interest is continuously humorous, but the Adelie penguin in the water is another thing; as it darts to and fro a fathom or two below the surface, as it leaps porpoise-like into the air or swims skimmingly over the rippling surface of a pool, it excites nothing but admiration.",
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          "ref": "1852, Orville Dewey, letter to his daughter Mary:",
          "text": "Yesterday, beside preaching a sermon more than half new, and attending a funeral (out of the society), I read skimmingly more than half Nichol's \"Architecture of the Heavens.\"",
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        "in a skimming manner"
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