racing skiff

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   a shell for a single oarsman

   Synonymssingle shell

   Broadershell

Questions about racing skiff

What does racing skiff mean?

racing skiff means "a shell for a single oarsman".

What is another word for racing skiff?

Close synonyms include single shell. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is racing skiff a common word?

racing skiff is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.