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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

esquif

, fr. OHG.

skif

, G.

schiff

. See

A small, light boat.

The pilot of some small night-foundered

skiff

Milton.

Skiff caterpillar

(Zool.)

the larva of a moth (

Limacodes scapha

); – so called from its peculiar shape.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Skiffed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Skiffing

To navigate in a skiff.

[R.]

Noun.

[L. schapha;] A small light boar resembling a yawl.

Verb.

To pass over in a light boat.