skiving

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of skive
2. noun A piece made in skiving (paring or splitting) leather, especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
3. noun A type of machining that skives metal, with various applications including gear cutting.

Similar words

skiver split hiding scelp sluff shoreling shorling spetches skeeling spale

Often followed by

off knife machine and machines

Word family

skive skived skives