Crossword-Solution: SKIVER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skiver | n. | 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. |
| Skiver | n. | The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SKIVER | anagram | KIVERS |
We have 12 clues for the answer “SKIVER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cheap, soft leather. | 1 answer |
| One who evades work | 1 answer |
| tanned outer layer split from a skin | 1 answer |
| WORK-shy person | 2 answers |
| Work shirker | 4 answers |
| Time-waster | 4 answers |
| LEATHERWORKING requirement | 16 answers |
| Impale | 22 answers |
| Lance | 25 answers |
| Malingerer | 26 answers |
| Layabout | 38 answers |
| Runaway | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SKIVER (5)
Right down dar in dat well Brer Rabbit keep his money hid, en ef 'tain't dat den he done gone en 'skiver'd a gole-mine, en ef 'tain't dat, den I'm a gwineter see w'at's in dar,' sezee.
You know the state the country's in now, sir, and how the people on both sides are ready to skiver one another about this religion, and rents and tithes, and dear knows what besides.
And now, what could be further from my reach than either? How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master.
And that's just the time, gentlemen, that I receives visitors, skiver 'em!" "What, Indians?" asked Rory.
But on the other hand even those not suitable for libraries which are used by the publisher on cheap books are much better than poor grades of leathers, such as skiver, bock, buffing, etc.
Quotes with SKIVER (1)
The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventu…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1946).