Meaning of skift | Babel Free

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Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).

Appalachia, Scotland, Shetland, dialectal, including

Examples

“Last night we had a little skift of snow.”

“Well, there was a little skift of snow on the ground, and I follered up a ridge of the mountain […]”

“It was quite cold that morning; just a little skift of snow. We had not gone a mile from camp before we were overtaken by a score or more of boys going home to Missouri. They had been up to the Wakarusa camp — the pro-slavery troops were ...”

“A “Skift” of Snow LAST night we had a “skift” of snow, and it was interesting to notice the effect on the summer-born creatures of the farm. A plump young kitten that had not seen the pesky stuff before came to meet me from the stable ...”

“We just got out on the top and there was a little skift of snow a-fallin'.”

“[...] money from the Appalachian Community Development Association and from Cincinnati's Tall Stacks Festival, so I rented a car and stayed in a motel instead of sleeping on somebody's floor. There was just a little skift of snow on the ground.”

“A skift of snow had fallen overnight on the ski trails, and Paul had yet to groom them and erase the tracks in the new snow.”

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