Crossword clues for skiver
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skiver \Skiv"er\, n. [Cf. Skewer, Shiver a fragment.]
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.
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who uses a skive (or skives). 2 A slacker. 3 (context dialect English) A skewer. 4 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 The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins. vb. To skewer, impale.
Usage examples of "skiver".
Am I to be skivered like a rabbit before your eyes, and to have my name disgraced for ever in the sight of all my tribe, and me the best man among them?
They weren't much anyway, just sloganeers and skivers and me-too-ists, the people who crowd behind the poor slob who's the spokesman shouting 'yeah, right' and leg it up an alley when the law gets rough.
Of all the lazy skivers, why did one have to be recording this most important piece of history?
I can see her now, setting there working a pair of thumbies with her wooden skivers clacking away.