Use for late-19th- and early-20th-century light shallow-draft boats designed to be poled in marshes in pursuit of various Rallidae, usually flat-bottomed, both cross- and fore-and-aft-planked, and double-ended.
AAT
3000232755
boats, rail-bird
pole skiffs
push skiffs
rail gunning skiffs
rail-bird boats
reed bird skiffs
skiffs, pole
skiffs, push
skiffs, rail
skiffs, rail gunning
skiffs, reed bird
13yrs ago
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