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

Morocco Leather Reviver.—The coverings of chairs or sofas in morocco, roan, or skiver can be much improved by this reviver.

From French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction by Bitmead, Richard

Bone and shell in small amounts were found here, and among them the skiver shown at d in plate 36.

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

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

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