skiffing

Verb (1)

skiff (third-person singular simple present skiffs, present participle skiffing, simple past and past participle skiffed)

1. (transitive) To navigate in a skiff.

Verb (2)

skiff (third-person singular simple present skiffs, present participle skiffing, simple past and past participle skiffed)

1. (dialectal) To fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground (etc).
   • We must be constantly alert to increased accident potentials in taxiing, takeoff, and landings on ice-glazed and snow-skiffed runways.1957, Combat Crew: Magazine of the Strategic Air Command, page 3

Verb (3)

skiff (third-person singular simple present skiffs, present participle skiffing, simple past and past participle skiffed)

1. To cut (a tea bush) to maintain the plucking table.
   • Skiffing is the lightest form of pruning involving as it does removal of a certain amount of growth above the previous pruning level.2016, H. Panda, The Complete Book on Cultivation and Manufacture of Tea (2nd Revised Edition), page 202

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