LekhoriLekhoriA small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.
A light, fleeting shower of rain or snow, or gust of wind, etc.
A skiff of rain blew into the shed and the two men moved their chairs back.
An act of slightly pruning tea bushes, placing new leaves at a convenient height without removing much woody growth.
In the fourth year, "light skiff" pruning removes just the uppermost growth.
To navigate in a skiff.
To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc).
We must be constantly alert to increased accident potentials in taxiing, takeoff, and landings on ice-glazed and snow-skiffed runways.
A surname.
From Middle English skif, from Middle French esquif, from Old Italian schifo (“small boat”), from Lombardic skif (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“boat, ship”). Doublet of ship.
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To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.
Skiffing is the lightest form of pruning involving as it does removal of a certain amount of growth above the previous pruning level.