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

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

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

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

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