skiffs in English
noun
1
a shallow, flat-bottomed open boat with sharp bow and square stern.
A punt is a small, flat-bottomed skiff that is steered with a long, gondolier-style pole that grapples the muddy river bottom with the hook at its end.
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1. We got the speed, we got the height, we got hoses that can sink those skiffs.
2. Boatyards There have been many Boatyards throughout the estuary that provided commercial fishermen with draggers or trawlers, garveys, skiffs, dories, and other watercraft used in both the bay and the ocean.
3. Mayhew describes the Bumboats of the 1840s as ‘all in the form of skiffs, rather short, but of a good breadth, and therefore less liable to capsize through the swell of the steamers, or through any other cause’