Caïque is also the term for a light skiff or long, narrow rowboat used especially on the Bosporus, Turkey.

Conan turned to head aft, where the master and two hands were now wrestling with the ferry's light skiff.

The following year at the same location he rowed George Solomon for £50 a side in light skiffs over three miles and won.

Barney was at the oars of a light skiff and together they rowed across to Morgan's Island, which lay about a mile away.

A light skiff of snow on an otherwise-cleared sidewalk recorded their footprints as they climbed worn marble steps.

He was dropping rapidly: forty miles, thirty nine . . . At five miles, Retief threw the light skiff into maximum deceleration.

The yachts are followed in light skiffs, and may not be touched more than a certain number of times during a race, on penalty of a handicap.

Edward True dragged a light skiff several miles over hills to the rescue site and managed to save several men from drowning.

Several times Blade held his breath as the galley bore down on a loaded barge or a light skiff, missing it by only a few yards.

On the ground was a light skiff of snow and that was not unmarked!