Definitions for skiver

skiver skiv·er

Spelling: [skahy-ver]
IPA: /ˈskaɪ vər/

Skiver is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in skiver (eikrsv).

Definitions for skiver

noun

  1. a person or thing that skives.
  2. a thin, soft leather made from sheepskin, used for hat linings and book bindings.

Origin of skiver

First recorded in 1790-1800; skive + -er1

Examples for skiver

skiver is the outside of a sheepskin which has been split, the inner side being known as the flesher.

You don't mean to say that they skiver over such fences on purpose?

Bone and shell in small amounts were found here, and among them the skiver shown at d in plate 36.

Cherries are made in the same manner as grapes, and the stalk neatly covered with skiver leather.

Kin I skiver er humans clean clar ercross de dissart, und retch back ter de eend o' de yeth, wid dese wun-eyed specks?

How I execrated that ill-starred jade, and the Dutch skiver, but for whom I might at this moment have been my own master.

Word Value for skiver
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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