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Quotation dates: 1724
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¶SKIFLE, v. To move lightly, skip, trip.Sc. 1724 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) V. 171:
See wha comes this way Patie & Pegy skifling oe'r the Hay.
[Prob. nonce freq. form of Skift, v., 2. (1).]
