Significados de frail skiff em inglês

How was he to sever his frail skiff from that rakish privateer?

It was a small, frail skiff, and moored very near the commencement of the rapids.

To face a frequently raging sea in a frail skiff was a race to certain disaster.

And what a noise around our frail skiff!

Smiling, she lures him into a frail skiff, and sends him forth alone and helpless to face the storm.

She knows that he has gone out to sea in a frail skiff to cross over to the island-rock Imbro.

The men row vigorously, and the frail skiff skims along the water at a rate of speed equal to an express-train.

It is long since Mohammed has felt so well as now, when tossed in his frail skiff on the foaming deep.

But it was with a sinking heart that he stepped into the frail skiff, which seemed scarcely more than a nutshell upon the tempestuous deep.