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trapskiff Atlantic Provinces 
n. a boat, 25 to 35 feet long, having low sides and capable of carrying a cod-trap.
See also: trapboat
- 1958 Even in sheltered coves the punts, dories and trapskiffs . . . threatened to snap free and go careening along the hollows and crests to the open sea. . . .
- 1963 One pilot landed in the teeth of a northeaster to rendezvous with a father who had wrapped his baby in oilskins and rowed across the open water in a trap skiff.
- 1964 Meanwhile, Gillis with two men and a boy, started after the fugitives in a small boat while four other men followed in a trapskiff.
- 1958 Even in sheltered coves the punts, dories and trapskiffs . . . threatened to snap free and go careening along the hollows and crests to the open sea. . . .