skiver
/S K AY1 V ER0/noun
- 1
A slacker.
- 2
A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
- 3
One who uses a skive (or skives).
- 4
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
- 5
An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
- 6
(dialect) A skewer.
- 7
A surname.
verb
- 1
(UK, dialect) To skewer, impale.
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