skift

Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).

Last night we had a little skift of snow.

Well, there was a little skift of snow on the ground, and I follered up a ridge of the mountain […]

Synonym of skiff (“fall lightly or briefly, and lightly cover the ground”).

A mourning dove had returned to him through snow, skifting over cold earth. It settled on a limb and began dressing its plumage.

[…] Violent gusts of wind came in rapid succession down the sound of Kilbrannan ; and a skifting rain, flung fitfully but fiercely from the huge black clouds as they hurried along before the tempest that ...

To shift; to move or remove.

Aw could like yo to skift, afore aw […]

And a man mun keep watch at t mill toft / To stiddy his mouter-dish — help him to sift it, / And see it's o' tidily done; / And gedder up offal, and heàmmward to skift it, / And hev sooins as sure as a gun.