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scaf
Also 4–6 skaf(fe, scaff, 5 scaphe, 6 schaffe, 7 erron. scarfe, 9– scaffie, scaffy, scaph, skaffie.
[a. OF. scaphe, scauphe, escaf(f)e, ad. L. scapha light boat, skiff, a. Gr. σκάϕη trough, tub, skiff, etc.]
1. A light boat, skiff. Also attrib. in scaffy boat. Chiefly Sc. Now Hist.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvi. (Nycholas) 274, & in a skaf a-pone þe se sayland. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VII. 463 William..was taken into an oþer scaphe. 1483Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 364 All manner of men that occupieth shippes, piccardes, scaffes, and lighteres. 1512Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 373 To Johnne of Newtoun and thre marinaris with him in the Inglis skaff. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 287 Tha..tuke the se thair in ane litill skaffe. 1576Foxe A. & M. 183/2 Entring vpon a time with his Hauke into a certaine schaffe or cockbote alone. 1600in Rec. Convent. Roy. Burghs (1870) II. 81 The brugh of Kinghorne..is..hewele trublit be the skaffis, skeldrykis and zowis of vnfre touns of Leith [etc.]. 1621Irish Act 5 Edw. IV, c. 6 in Bolton Stat. Irel. 38 All other small vessells, as Scarfes or Boats, not hauing Drouer nor Lighter. 1781Aberdeen Jrnl. 29 Oct., A large boat or scaff was put ashore two miles to the eastward of this place. 1877E. W. H. Holdsworth Sea Fisheries 168 The Buckie boats, known as ‘Scaffs’ or ‘Scaffy boats’, are of an entirely different build from the other Scotch craft. 1906H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail v. 100 From Portsoy westwards along the Banff and Moray coasts, and round the eastern seaboard of Ross-shire, until within the last forty years, the ‘Skaffie’ or ‘Buckie Skaffie’, as it was often known, was universally used in the herring fishing. Ibid. 436 Skaffie, or scaith, a type of Scotch lugger with raked stem and stern posts, used principally on the coastline between Frasersburgh and Dornoch, and apparently of Norse origin. 1914,1927[see Fifie, fifie]. 1959Banffshire Jrnl. 6 Jan. 4 Open sailing boats, lug-sail rigged, called herring luggers or more familiarly ‘Scaffies’.
†2. [tr. L. fiscella.] An open basket. Obs.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 319 Moyses..was i-doo in a scaf of risshes i-schape as a litel boot. |