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or currach
as in skiff
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Noun
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Beyond, two men in straw hats share a skiff, an image of blissful communion.—
James Meyer,
Artforum,
1 May 2025 -
And today there’s a big casino with roller skating where Old Man Dill used to moor the three leaky skiffs which comprised his boat livery.—
Ted Janes,
Outdoor Life,
29 May 2025
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There’s something wonderfully timeless about pushing off from shore in a canoe as the paddles dip quietly through calm water as dragonflies skim by.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
29 June 2025
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The next day was opening day, so the group paddled canoes around the shores of Perent Lake looking for moose.—
Jack O'Connor,
Outdoor Life,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Decorate a patriotic dinghy 12 feet and under and enter the parade.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 July 2025
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Or rather, the slow, clinging descent down the dinghy’s slippery three-step ladder into what might as well have been a black hole, the water was so opaque.—
Billie Cohen,
AFAR Media,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Instead, guardsmen showed up in umiaks with small outboard motors.—
Zachariah Hughes,
Anchorage Daily News,
30 Mar. 2023
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The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death.—
John Oseid,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2022
Noun
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The seven-foot canvas features only two figures, who stand in a green shallop like Adam and Eve.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
4 May 2022
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And so had the shallop, built in Massachusetts in 1957 at the Plymouth Marine Railway.—
Brian MacQuarrie,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 June 2019
Noun
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Work scows were up to 90 feet long and hauled coal, grain and limestone.—
Diana Lambdin Meyer,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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Instead, its members have up to 50 small, modest, one- and two-person dinghies, 20-foot racing scows, and a few larger craft.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
Noun
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Newton enlisted the help of his younger brother and a friend, who agreed to follow along behind him in a rowboat with food and other supplies.—
Nick Woltman,
Twin Cities,
6 July 2025
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Adventure intel: Green Lake, the larger of the two, has a sandy public beach with swimming access and a boat house that rents rowboats and kayaks (from $12 an hour).—
Jen Murphy,
Outside Online,
22 May 2025
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After many storms and boat impacts, their only pier is no longer safe to use so the locals have to wade out to the arriving dhows to unload in choppy and quite chilly waters.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Food and supplies are transported from Maputo via wooden dhows under sail.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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