skiff

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
2. Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.

Verb

To navigate in a skiff.

Verb

To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc).

Verb

To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.

Sinónimos

boat

⛵

rowboat

🚣

rowing boat

dinghy

shallop

yawl

little boat

gig

gondola

hulk

hull

jolly

scow

vessel

wherry

yawn

barc

light boat

barge

jolly boat

barque

beck

canoe

🛶

craft

cutter

dingey

Traducións

barque

pirogue

esquif

Skiff

barco

⛵

batel

esquife

barca

⛵

Boot

⛵

skiff

esquif

skiff

esquife

barca

kik

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/skɪf/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: skif

Relativo a inglés: skiffle

Relativo a inglés: skift

Relativo a escocés: skift

Relativo a Old Norse: skipta

In summary

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.