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skived

[skahyv]

verb (used with object), skived, skiv·ing.

to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices.

to shave, as hides.

to finish the turning of (a metal object) by feeding a tool against it tangentially.

Origin:
1815–25; perhaps < Old Norse skīfa slice

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