Crossword-Solution: SKIVING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skiving | n. | The act of paring or splitting leather or skins. |
| Skiving | n. | A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SKIVING | anagram | VIKINGS |
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| malingering | 4 answers |
| bunking off | 5 answers |
| absenteeism | 7 answers |
| sickly | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SKIVING (4)
Scarfing, skiving, chamfering, bevelling, feather-edging, appear to be synonymous terms for a variety of machines for cutting the edges of leather obliquely, for the purpose chiefly of making lap seams, scarf-joints, and reducing the thickness and stiffness of leather at those and certain other points.
The binder cut a piece of calfskin approximately ¾ inch larger all around than the covers of the book opened out flat, and with his skiving knife pared the margins of the leather very thin.
First to prepare leather taps, fit them in the usual manner, by “skiving” or shaving off the proper portions of the sole or tap to the desired thinness.
With a sharp skiving or head knife, 5, Plate I, the edges of the leather are pared thin, and also a strip through the middle where the back of the book goes, is pared, if the leather is quite thick.