Catamaran vs Skiff - What's the difference?
catamaran | skiff |
A raft consisting of two or more logs tied together.
A raft used on the St Lawrence River by lashing two ships together.
A small rectangular raft used in dockyards to protect the hulls of large ships.
A twin-hulled ship or boat
(colloquial) A quarrelsome woman; a scold.
A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
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, title= Any of various types of boats small enough for sailing or rowing by one person.
(weather) A light wind/rain/snow, etc.
(slang) Used when referring to anyone (typically rednecks and fishermen) who has a degree of intelligence, but believes they are more than they actually are.
Skiff is a hyponym of catamaran.
As nouns the difference between catamaran and skiff
is that catamaran is a raft consisting of two or more logs tied together while skiff is a small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.As a verb skiff is
to navigate in a skiff.catamaran
English
(wikipedia catamaran)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* cat (diminutive)Coordinate terms
* monohull * multihull * outrigger canoe * twinhullskiff
English
(wikipedia skiff)Etymology 1
From (etyl) esquif, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff' s rail, close to the stern.}}