What is "skil"

Usage examples of "skil".

The books were mostly in old and dingy bindings, but there were a few to attract the eyes of a child--especially some annuals, in red skil, or embossed leather, or, most bewitching of all, in paper, protected by a tight case of the same, from which, with the help of a ribbon, you drew out the precious little green volume, with its gilt edges and lovely engravings--one of which in particular I remember--a castle in the distance, a wood, a ghastly man at the head of a rearing horse, and a white, mist-like, fleeting ghost, the cause of the consternation.

Later, perhaps, he could do so, and employ the wreckage to make skils or snowshoes.

We had lived together, over the years, with the clan Timson and their misdoings, He was known to them as a decent and fair-minded cop, as disapproving of the younger, Panda-racing, evidence-mas-saging intake to the Force as they were of the lack of discretion and criminal skils which marked the younger Timsons.