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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One, such as a cutting tool, that skives.
  2. n. A soft thin leather split off the outside of sheepskin and used for bookbinding.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as skiving-knife.
  2. n. Leather split by the skiving-knife; a thin leather made of the grained side of split sheepskin tanned in sumac. It is used for cheap bindings for books, the lining of hats, pocket-books, etc. Compare skiving.
  3. n. In shoe manufacturing, a machine for cutting counters for shoes and for making rands; a leather-skiving machine.
  4. n. An old form of dirk.
  5. n. A skewer.
  6. To skewer; impale.
  7. To scatter; disperse; fly apart or in various directions, as a flock of birds.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who uses a skive (or skives).
  2. n. A slacker.
  3. n. dialect A skewer.
  4. n. An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
  5. n. The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
  6. v. To skewer, impale.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
  2. n. The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.

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  • ruzuzu Does this have anything to do with aebleskivers? Apr 26, 2011

  • kingrat47 I use this as a synonmym for "shirker," which is apparently not a terribly common usage. Huh. Dec 10, 2006

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