The fishing boat turned out to be a pirate skiff.
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Skiff
//skɪf//
Synonyms for "skiff" (10 found)
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33 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λέμβος noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- σκαφίδιον noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Bulgarian
1 entries- скиф noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Catalan
1 entries- esquif noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 舟 noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Czech
2 entries- jednomístný člun noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- skif noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Dutch
2 entries- roeiboot noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- skiff noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Finnish
1 entries- jolla noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
French
2 entries- barque noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- esquif noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Galician
2 entries- chalana noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- esquife noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
German
1 entries- Skiff noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Greek
2 entries- ακάτιο noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- πριάρι noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Ido
1 entries- bateleto noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Irish
1 entries- scif noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Italian
2 entries- barca noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- lancia noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Latin
2 entries- linter noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- scapha noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Persian
1 entries- زورق noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Boot (nds) noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Russian
1 entries- я́лик noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sgoth noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- skif noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- скиф noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Spanish
2 entries- batel noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
- esquife noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Ukrainian
1 entries- я́лик noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Welsh
1 entries- sgiff noun (Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person)
Sample sentences
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Tom fishes alone in a skiff.
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I think I see a skiff on the horizon.
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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.
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