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skive

   [skahyv]
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; perhaps < Old Norse skīfa slice
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