skiver

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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

Very thin skiver used as labels on which to gild lettering.

From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low

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

"You don't mean to say that they skiver over such fences on purpose?" says I. "Indeed they do, and build them higher and broader every year."

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

Objects from Sell Cave. a, Pestles or grinding stones; b, celt, pottery disks, paint stones, and skiver 46 17.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard