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skivings

skivings is the plural of skiving.

Meaning of skiving

Noun

skiving (plural skivings)

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

Questions about skivings

What is skivings the plural of?
Skivings is the plural of skiving.

Words near skivings in the dictionary

  1. skives
  2. skives off
  3. skivies
  4. skiving
  5. skiving off
  6. skivings
  7. skivs
  8. skivvie
  9. skivvied
  10. skivvies
  11. skivvy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skivings (page history and authors); skiving (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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