Skiffer
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Skiffer is a noun meaning (geology, paleontology, possibly obsolete) Slate.
Meaning
(geology, paleontology, possibly obsolete) Slate.
More Meanings
- One who pilots a skiff.
Example Sentences
... skiffers, and rowers : the water skier, plus the drunk on the twenty-thousand dollar boat.
... a skiffer's long pole . The skiffer eyed Leato and Renata , pole raised as she weighed her options. Not far away, the hawks were dragging people off boats and out of the water.
... a skiffer to death for dumping a passenger in the river when he refused to pay the fare. A slumming noble, it turned out. The punishment was egregious, and Fulvet had commuted it, but the skiffers had been whipped into a fury.
It presents the obverve aspect, and this is well marked and characteristic. Range. D. gibberulus is a common species in the Upper Phyllograptus-skiffer of Scania, and in the Middle Arenig beds of Britain, underlying the zone of D. bifidus.
Word Forms
- skiffers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include slate, scrubstone, scantle, slat, skipple, skuttle.
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