Home › Words › S › skuteskute/skuːt/skute means A boat; a small vessel.skute is pronounced /skuːt/.EtymologyFrom Icelandic skúta; akin to Swedish skuta, Danish skude, Dutch schuit.nounA boat; a small vessel.e.g.“They carried with them all the skutes and boats that might be found.” — 1618, Roger Williams, Actions of the Low Countries:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).