skiffer

1. obsoletepossiblyuncountablebiologySlate.

   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.

   1905, Norges geologiske undersøkelse, NGU

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   ... and the Cyrtograptus - Skiffer of Scania. The Rastrites - Skiffer have been divided by Prof. Törnquist into six zones; and the assemblage of species of each of these agrees closely with that of the five zones of our Llandovery Series, and with ...

   1906, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Geological Society of London, page 696

   Moberg reports finding in the Dictyonema shales the trilobites, Ceratopyge forficula and Shumardia pusilla which have also been found in the Ceratopyge skiffer of Norway, […] the only species of trilobite as yet found in the Dictyonema skiffer of Sweden proper;

   1914, Vickers Oberholtzer, The Rocks of Oland, Geologically Considered, page 9

   The occurrence of this common Utica slate species so far north is interesting, and, taken with its appearance in the Trinuclid Skiffer of Sweden (Linnarsson, loc. cit, p. 70, fig. 27), where it is also of the same small size as here, gives it a wide […]

   2014, Charles Francis Hall, Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by Charles F. Hall, Cambridge University Press, page 582

plural skiffers

1. One who pilots a skiff.

   ... skiffers, and rowers : the water skier, plus the drunk on the twenty-thousand dollar boat.

   1993, Pete Addison Y. Gunter, The Big Thicket: An Ecological Reevaluation, University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 150

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   ... 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.

   2021 January 19, M. A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors, Orbit, →ISBN

   ... 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.

   2021 December 7, M. A. Carrick, The Liar's Knot, Orbit, →ISBN