skifting

Verb

skift (third-person singular simple present skifts, present participle skifting, simple past and past participle skifted)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of skiff (“fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground”).
   • A mourning dove had returned to him through snow, skifting over cold earth. It settled on a limb and began dressing its plumage.1911, Gene Stratton-Porter, The Harvester, page 46

   Synonyms:

   skiff

2. (dialectal, obsolete, possibly) To shift; to move or remove.
   • Aw could like yo to skift, afore aw […]1867, Edwin Waugh, Owd Blanket, page 10

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