skiver

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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