skiver

plural skivers

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKinformalA slacker.
2. CommonwealthIrelandUKinformalA truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.

plural skivers

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKinformalOne who uses a skive (or skives).
2. CommonwealthIrelandUKdialectalinformalA skewer.
3. CommonwealthIrelandUKinformalAn inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
4. CommonwealthIrelandUKinformalThe cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.

present singular third person skivers · participle present skivering · participle past skivered · past skivered

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKdialectalinformalTo skewer, impale.

   I'll finish heating the oven, and set you free to go and skiver up them ducks.

   1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 9”, in The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

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   […] it's I that wishes I could be sure 'twas malice, I'd skiver you, heels and elbows, on my sword, and roast you alive on that fire.

   1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “The Dead Secret, Showing how the Fire-worker Proved to Puddock that Nutter Had Spied Out the Nakedness of the Land”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 102

plural Skivers

1. A surname.