Skiving

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  • v. Present participle of skive.
  • n. A piece made in skiving (the paring or splitting of leather), especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.
  • n. A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The operation of taking off the rough fleshy parts from the inner surface of a skin by short oblique cuts with a curriers' knife.
  • n. The rejected thickness of leather of the flesh side, when leather is split for thin shoes and the like.
    • Word Usage
    "From there is progressed from trash duty to organizing the leather, soon moving on to cutting and skiving, and over the course of two and a half years, he became a full fledged apprentice, learning how to make his own shoes."
    Verb Stem
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