skives

Noun (1)

skive (plural skives)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
   • Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.
2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
   • I got the bus to school, and the driver gave me the eye, thinking I was on the skive, and I started to explain that there was something up with my head, but then I couldn't be bothered.2007, Anthony McGowan, Henry Tumour, →ISBN, page 8

Noun (2)

skive (plural skives)

1. A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
   • This accident sometimes occasions a flaw in the diamond, and always damages the skive, by tearing up its surface.1820, Robert Jameson, A System of Mineralogy, in which Minerals are Arranged According to the Natural History Method, page 18
2. An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.
   • There would be no need for medial heel skive and the heel cup can be of normal depth.2004, Alon Marcus, Foundations for Integrative Musculoskeletal Medicine, →ISBN, page 534

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