The word 'skiff' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is a type of small, light boat used for fishing or leisurely trips on rivers or lakes. Example: We spent a relaxing afternoon rowing our skiff on the calm waters of the lake.
A former prime minister of Luxembourg who now hopes to become president of the European Commission, he had to watch four heads of government smiling for the cameras on a summery lake in Sweden, as they enjoyed themselves in a skiff.
Without the explosion of aniline-, chrome- and cadmium-based colours, many fledgling industries would have been severely handicapped and works of art from Renoir's "The Skiff" to Katarina Fritsch's giant blue cockerel sculpture in Trafalgar Square would have been impossible.
Forged visas in the Rue des Chrétiens, a medieval alleyway in the bazaar in Tangiers, cost about $3,000; a night ride in a skiff across the Mediterranean costs a third the price.The supply of people is meeting a demand, especially from Spain.
WHEN pirates attacked the MV Kition, a Greek tanker, late at night in the Gulf of Aden on May 1st, a Portuguese helicopter scared off the assailants and tracked their skiff to its "mother ship".
He had spent most of the year doing the same, often floating round in a small skiff on the Thames or perched in Bisham wood, near Marlow, to bring to birth his enormous mythical-French-revolution poem, "The Revolt of Islam".
A few arm their boats with anti-aircraft guns big enough to blow an approaching pirate skiff out of the water.Jolly Roger, Somali-styleWhile these so-called "bio-pirates" strip Africa's waters of a valuable and sustainable resource, the more conventional pirates terrorise one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
It would not take much for an explosive-laden skiff to strike one of the oil tankers that pass close to the islands; much of the Middle East's oil exports passes this way.
Hearst, another member of the consortium, has a start-up called Skiff.
Skiff, a start-up spun out of Hearst, is a rare exception to this rule.
This is illustrated by Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "The Skiff" (1875, see video below), a painting that exploits the resonant contrast between opposites on Chevreul's colour wheel to eye-catching effect.
"They feel that tackling a skiff is an odd thing to do with a ship costing hundreds of millions," says Jason Alderwick, an analyst with the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies
