scafn.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 463 William..was taken into an oþer scaphe.

c1480 (a1400) St. Nicholas 274 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 489 In a skaf a-pone þe se sayland.

1483 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 364 All manner of men that occupieth shippes, piccardes, scaffes, and lighteres.

1512 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 373 To Johnne of Newtoun and thre marinaris with him in the Inglis skaff.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 287 Tha..tuke the se thair in ane litill skaffe.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. iii. 185/2 Entring vpon a time with his Hauke into a certaine schaffe or cockbote alone.

1600 in Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs (1870) II. 81 The brugh of Kinghorne..is..hewele trublit be the skaffis, skeldrykis and zowis of vnfre touns of Leith [etc.].

1621 Irish Act 5 Edw. IV c. 6 in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland 38 All other small vessells, as Scarfes or Boats, not hauing Drouer nor Lighter.

1781 Aberdeen Jrnl. 29 Oct. A large boat or scaff was put ashore two miles to the eastward of this place.

1877 E. 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.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 257/2 Buckie boats have long been remarkable for their peculiar build and rig, having a low and broad midship section with a flat or rather hollow floors; they are very fine at both ends, and have considerable rake of both stem and stern post. They are commonly known as ‘scaffy’ boats.

1906 H. 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.

1906 H. W. Smyth Mast & Sail v. 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 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 264/1 The craft at this time were of the ‘scaff’ or ‘fifie’ build.

1927 Glasgow Herald 3 May 7 Scaffie boats gave way to Zulu and Fifie types.

1959 Banffshire Jrnl. 6 Jan. 4 Open sailing boats, lug-sail rigged, called herring luggers or more familiarly ‘Scaffies’.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 319 Moyses..was i-doo in a scaf of risshes i-schape as a litel boot.