skiver
Americannoun
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a person or thing that skives.
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a thin, soft leather made from sheepskin, used for hat linings and book bindings.
noun
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the tanned outer layer split from a skin
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a person, tool, or machine that skives
noun
Etymology
Origin of skiver
Example Sentences
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If a university does not produce the occasional eloquent skiver, or unquenchably verbal time-waster, it is not fulfilling its true end.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2020
Very thin skiver used as labels on which to gild lettering.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
Bone and shell in small amounts were found here, and among them the skiver shown at d in plate 36.
From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke
A foot farther in was part of a skiver; and 2 feet beyond this was a large knife of white chert almost as clear and compact as chalcedony, shown at a in plate 27.
From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke
How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master.
From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed
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