Skived

Skived is the past tense and past participle of the verb skive. The core meaning is to shave off a thin layer from the edge or surface of a material, thereby thinning it or smoothing the edge. Skiving is a common technique in leatherworking, where leather is thinned along edges or underlays to reduce bulk and improve seam appearance and flexibility. It is accomplished with specialized skiving knives or powered skiving machines, and it results in a tapered edge suitable for neat adhesion in wallets, belts, saddlery, and footwear. Skived leather may be described as thinned or bevelled at the edge.

The term can also be used more generally for any process that removes thin slices from a surface, such as skiving wood, film, or fabric, often to facilitate bending, bonding, or finishing.

In informal British English, skive means to avoid work or school; to skive off is to shirk duties. The past tense skived is used in that sense, as in “He skived off again yesterday.”

Skived is primarily used to describe material that has been thinned by skiving, and the verb can describe both the act of thinning and the resulting edge or surface.