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Skift vs Smift - What's the difference?

skift | smift |

As nouns the difference between skift and smift

is that skift is a light dusting of snow while smift is a slow match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

skift

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light dusting of snow.
  • * 2010 , Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting (page 84)
    • 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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    smift

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slow match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.
    • (Webster 1913)