skiff

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  1. noun A flatbottom open boat of shallow draft, having a pointed bow and a square stern and propelled by oars, sail, or motor.

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  • His kicking ended almost instantly, and he lay dead in the bottom of the boat I dropped my gun and flew to the oars: it was a close `shave;' the skiff was already in white water, and dancing like a feather; but with a few strokes I succeeded in backing her out, and then heading her away from the breakers, I pulled in a direct line for the shore I thought not of my canvas-backs--they had floated by this time, I neither knew nor cared whither: the sharks might have them for me. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
  • No spectator from the shore (if there had been any) could have doubted that the boat was in pursuit of the skiff, and would snap it up presently. —  Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow"
  • "What became of the skiff, then True," said the man; and, shaking his head, he passed on, and spoke to the master In his own secret mind, the master of the schooner did not quite like his present situation. —  Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow"
  • And when I looked next for the skiff, it was gone it had disappeared And where were you Never mind where I was. —  Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow"
  • Here he got into a skiff, and rowed laboriously upstream for a long distance before he started across, and then swung into the current. —  The Last of the Plainsmen
 

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  1. Middle English skif, from Old French esquif, from Old Italian schifo, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from Old French esquif, from Middle High German skif, sehif, German schiff, a boat, ship, =English ship: see ship.
  2. from skiff, n.
 

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