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Examples of skive
skive
He couldn't take jokes very well, always taking them to heart, and began to skive off.
From the dailymail.co.uk
My Mach3 wouldn't skive the glaze from a stick of butter, but still I bled.
From the atwar.blogs.nytimes.com
Keep it open in a separate window and get your skive on in the office.
From the hecklerspray.com
I have no internet or telephone there, so there are no interruptions and no excuses to skive.
From the guardian.co.uk
When I was older I would skive off school and work in the markets.
From the independent.co.uk
I used to skive off school so I could lie in bed and read my Asterix books, such wit and great art.
From the guardian.co.uk
If you were me,wouldn't you just skive off for the day?
From the telegraph.co.uk
They don't just skive around buying up other nations.
From the nbr.co.nz
Men are less likely to follow the rules, more likely to skive off or take risks at work, both physically and financially.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- Remove the surface of; "skive leather"
- Skive is a town in Skive municipality (Danish, Skive Kommune) in Region Midtjylland at the base of Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland peninsula in northwest Denmark. It is the municipality's main town and the site of its municipal council.
- The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem; To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather); To avoid one's assigned work or duty. To slack off
- (Skiving) Splitting the tanned outer layer from a skin
- (Skiving) The thin edges on the underside of a leather or other wrap-on grip, making the grip easier to wrap in place.
- (Skiving) To dig in thin layers.
- (skiving) (1) Removal of a material in thin layers or chips with a high degree of shear or slippage, or both, of the cutting tool. ...
- To shave or cut off the surface of a rubber material in a horizontal manner. Sometimes referred to as splitting which means to divide sharply or cleanly into layers.
- A cut made on an angle to the surface to produce a tapered or feathered cut.
