skiffer
skiffer noun: slate.
Noun (1)
skiffer (uncountable)
- Slate.
- It presents the obverve aspect, and this is well marked and characteristic. Range. D. gibberulus is a common species in the Upper Phyllograptus-skiffer of Scania, and in the Middle Arenig beds of Britain, underlying the zone of D. bifidus.1905, Norges geologiske undersøkelse, NGU
- ... and the Cyrtograptus - Skiffer of Scania. The Rastrites - Skiffer have been divided by Prof. Törnquist into six zones; and the assemblage of species of each of these agrees closely with that of the five zones of our Llandovery Series, and with ...1906, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Geological Society of London, page 696
Noun (2)
skiffer (plural skiffers)
- One who pilots a skiff.
- ... skiffers, and rowers : the water skier, plus the drunk on the twenty-thousand dollar boat.1993, Pete Addison Y. Gunter, The Big Thicket: An Ecological Reevaluation, University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 150
- ... a skiffer's long pole . The skiffer eyed Leato and Renata , pole raised as she weighed her options. Not far away, the hawks were dragging people off boats and out of the water.2021 January 19, M. A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors, Orbit, →ISBN
Forms of skiffer
| plural | skiffers |
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Origin of skiffer
Presumably Swedish skiffer.
skiff + -er
Questions about skiffer
- What does skiffer mean?
- Skiffer means slate.
- What part of speech is skiffer?
- Skiffer is a noun.
- What is the plural of skiffer?
- The plural of skiffer is skiffers.
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