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
Morocco Leather Reviver.—The coverings of chairs or sofas in morocco, roan, or skiver can be much improved by this reviver.
From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard
And that’s just the time, gentlemen, that I receives visitors, skiver ’em!”
From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon
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 Reed, Talbot Baines
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 Fowke, Gerard
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