Skiver vs Skive - What's the difference?
skiver | skive |
One who uses a skive (or skives).
A slacker.
(dialect) A skewer.
An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
To skewer, impale.
*1863 , Le Fanu,
*1887 , Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders ,
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The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
* 2009 , Nicoline van der Sijs, Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages ,
To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
(British) To avoid one's lessons or, sometimes, work. Chiefly at school or university.
* 2006 , The Economist,
a disc (UK) or disk (US)
a washer (small disc with a hole in the middle )
a slice (e.g. slice of bread )
Skiver is a derived term of skive.
As nouns the difference between skiver and skive
is that skiver is one who uses a skive (or skives) while skive is the iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.As verbs the difference between skiver and skive
is that skiver is to skewer, impale while skive is to pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).skiver
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- [...] 'it's I that wishes I could be sure 'twas malice, I'd skiver you, heels and elbows, on my sword, and roast you alive on that fire.
- I'll finish heating the oven, and set you free to go and skiver up them ducks.
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skive
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(en noun)page 93
- Thus, American diamond cutters would talk of a skive (after Dutch schijf ), where their British colleagues would say disk or wheel.
Verb
(skiv)Young offenders: Arrested development
- Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.
