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skive

  [skahyv]
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–verb (used with object), skived, skiv⋅ing.
1. to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.
2. to shave, as hides.
3. to finish the turning of (a metal object) by feeding a tool against it tangentially.
Origin:
1815–25; perh. < ON skīfa slice
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skive   (skīv)   
tr.v.   skived, skiv·ing, skives
To cut thin layers off (leather or rubber, for example); pare.

[Of Scandinavian origin; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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