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Term used in tea gardens and denotes the act of cutting/pruning the bushes as per the specific norms. Various types of skiff are used viz Light Skiff (LS), Medium Skiff (MS), Deep Skiff (DS) and Level Of Skiff (LOS).
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A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
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Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
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A light wind/rain/snow, etc.
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A skiff of rain blew into the shed and the two men moved their chairs back.
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To navigate in a skiff.
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To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table
There was one solitary man rowing a little skiff across a lake.
Sir John Alleyne and two men, all badly wounded, clinging to a skiff.
They had a pretty fast skiff which was just like a rowing boat with outboard engines fitted.
So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half- past three.
Back on the waters This traditional skiff or long rowing boat was built at William Cory's barge yard in Charlton.
Fishing in a small skiff, just off the edge of the reef, we experienced light tackle sport at its best.
You can get up close in a flat-bottomed skiff - but prepare yourself for a pretty nerve-wracking experience.
Near the middle of the platform, the skiff was half set in the ship's hull, making a slight bulge.
Cruisingas nr cruise the homophobic Caribbean by skiff to.
Another novelty boat was encountered near Lechlade in the form of a camping skiff.
Back on the waters This traditional skiff or long rowing boat was built at William Cory 's barge yard in Charlton.
The committee boats and safety boats on the water were given a feast of skilled skiff sailing by the cream of our sailing youth.
In the same year, the tiny skiff lock was added especially for pleasure craft.
Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped.
The fuze was lighted and the crew of six were pushing off in their little motor skiff when the propellor was torn off by fouling the submarine, and they had to take to the oars.
The name of the village was derived from a Swede, Jeremiah Dobbs, whose family probably moved hither from Delaware, and who at the beginning of the last quarter of the 18th century had a skiff ferry, which was kept up by his family for a century afterwards.