skiver

Example Sentences

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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

And that’s just the time, gentlemen, that I receives visitors, skiver ’em!”

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

The leathers in common use for bookbinding are:— Goatskin, known as morocco.Calf, known as calf and russia.Sheepskin, known as roan, basil, skiver, &c.Pigskin, known as pigskin.Sealskin, known as seal.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel

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

How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master.

From Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Reed, Talbot Baines