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<p>65.17.185.21: </p> <hr /> <div>The term ['''skiff'''] is applied to various river craft, but a skiff is typically a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern. Although originally used mainly by fishermen, they are today primarily leisure craft. They usually hold either one person or, more commonly, three (two [[sculling |scullers]] and a [[coxswain|cox]]).<br /> <br /> Many modern skiffs do carry a small outboard motor and have a center-console hull design, with a blunt bow, a flat bottom and a square stern. They are relatively inexpensive compared to skiboats or bass boats, and are common &quot;working&quot; boats, filling such jobs as ferrying passengers from the shore to a larger vessel, or employed by crab trappers.<br /> <br /> The word has a complicated etymology: it comes from the [[Middle English]] ''skif'', which derives from the [[Old French]] ''esquif'', which in turn derives from the [[Old Italian]] ''schifo'', which is itself of [[German language|Germanic]] origin. The word is related to ''[[ship]]''.<br /> <br /> Skiffs were once very common on the [[River Thames]] in [[England]] and featured in the famous book about a journey up the Thames in a skiff, [[Three Men in a Boat]].<br /> <br /> The term &quot;skif&quot; or &quot;skif dank&quot; is also a term often used in stoner cliques to relate the opinion that something is good, or of high quality. <br /> <br /> ==External links==<br /> <br /> *[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/skiffhire/boats.html Thames Skiff Hire - pictures of Thames skiffs]<br /> *[http://carolinaskiff.com/Default.aspx?tabid=101 Carolina Skiffs]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Boat types]]<br /> <br /> [[de:Skiff]]<br /> [[nl:Skiff]]</div>

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