- a light rowboat for one person; skiff.
- any of various barges, fishing vessels, etc., used locally in England.
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"Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide; the navigation of the river between bridges, in an open boat, was a much easier and commoner matter in those days than it is in these; and we went ahead among many skiffs and wherries briskly."
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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