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▪ I. ‖ skoff S. Afr.|skɔf|
Also schoft, skof, skoft. Pl. skoffs, skofte.
[Afrikaans skof, f. Du. schoft (see scoff n.2).]
A stage of a journey, a period of travel between outspans.
1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voyage to Cape of Good Hope I. 132 Four such hours with a horse, or with eight oxen, are reckoned to make one skoft. 1801J. Barrow Acct. Trav. S. Afr. I. ii. 55 Each day's journey is called a skoff; and the length of these is generally regulated by local circumstances, being from five to fifteen hours. 1835H. I. Venable in D. J. Kotzé Lett. Amer. Missionaries (1950) 70 The Dutch call a day's journey a schoft. For oxen in good condition a schoft is from twenty to twenty-four miles. 1892R. Churchill Men, Mines & Animals in S. Afr. ix. 134 We have done twenty-five miles from Silika in three ‘skoffs’, which is excellent trekking. 1932L. Fouche in C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek p. xv, It became imperative to ascertain the value of Trigardt's unit, the length of a ‘skof’. 1969A. Fugard Boesman & Lena i. 2 That last skof was hard. Against the wind... Heavier and heavier. Every step. 1972L. G. Green When Journey's Over (1973) v. 50 The normal day on the road was made up of two or three stages known as skofte.
▪ II. skoff
var. scoff n.2 and v.2 |