variants
or currach
as in skiff
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Noun
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The boat’s prow grated on the shore and Larry hauled it up among the rushes beside a battered skiff.—
Ted Janes,
Outdoor Life,
29 May 2025 -
Indoor rowing doesn’t have quite the same charm of being in a skiff on a river (sigh, if only), but the best rowing machine will still give you a great workout right at home.—
Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Other activities, such as jet-skiing, kiteboarding, scuba diving, and outrigger canoe rides, can be coordinated upon request.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
19 June 2025
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The freight canoe that was towing us plowed right on toward the logs, hit the first line, slowed, penetrated several canoe lengths, and stopped.—
Robeson Bailey,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2025
Noun
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Temo sought to give boaters a portable, easy-to-handle means of bringing clean, quiet electric propulsion to small vessels like tenders, rowboats and dinghies.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 May 2025
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Pull up the dinghy to The Ranch Escapade, where pristine white sand invites visitors to while away the day with ice-cold drinks and simple, savory Caribbean fare.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Instead, guardsmen showed up in umiaks with small outboard motors.—
Zachariah Hughes,
Anchorage Daily News,
30 Mar. 2023
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The kayak might be fun to us, but for Inuit it, and the big open umiak hunting boat, meant food or hunger, life or death.—
John Oseid,
Forbes,
11 Oct. 2022
Noun
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The seven-foot canvas features only two figures, who stand in a green shallop like Adam and Eve.—
Julian Lucas,
The New Yorker,
4 May 2022
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And so had the shallop, built in Massachusetts in 1957 at the Plymouth Marine Railway.—
Brian MacQuarrie,
BostonGlobe.com,
23 June 2019
Noun
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Instead, its members have up to 50 small, modest, one- and two-person dinghies, 20-foot racing scows, and a few larger craft.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
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It was purchased in 1890 by brothers John and Alexander Laurie to tow vessels and barges, or scows filled with stone from nearby quarries, in Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay.—
Caitlin Looby,
Journal Sentinel,
21 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Japanese fishermen built small rowboats and pioneered innovative fishing techniques to catch tuna in San Pedro Bay.—
Claire Wang,
NBC news,
31 May 2025
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Temo sought to give boaters a portable, easy-to-handle means of bringing clean, quiet electric propulsion to small vessels like tenders, rowboats and dinghies.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 May 2025
Noun
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After many storms and boat impacts, their only pier is no longer safe to use so the locals have to wade out to the arriving dhows to unload in choppy and quite chilly waters.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Food and supplies are transported from Maputo via wooden dhows under sail.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Curragh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curragh. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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