Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Skiff

Skiff , noun

[French esquif, from Old High German skif, German schiff. See Ship.]

A small, light boat.
The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff. — Milton
Collocations (1)
Skiff caterpillar (Zoology) , the larva of a moth (Limacodes scapha); -- so called from its peculiar shape.

Skiff , transitive verb

To navigate in a skiff. [Rare]