Dorothy Wordsworth in her Journal, February 27, 1798, describes the look of the sea by moonlight, "big and white, swelled to the very shores, but round and high in the middle." 20, 512--*shrieve*.

To hear confession and pronounce absolution, one of the duties of the priesthood in the Catholic church.

The word is more often spelled _shrive.

Shrift_ is the abstract noun derived from it.
21, 523--*skiff-boat*.

A pleonastic compound; a skiff is a boat.
Coleridge is fond of such formations.