DCHP-3

skiffer

Maritimes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person who fishes from a skiff, close inshore.

Quotations

1945
Most of the big boats fish the more distant grounds, leaving the inner places for "skiffers" and men in other small craft.