skive

To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.

Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door.

Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.

Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.

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.

Another school skive! I only realised this when my dentist's receptionist told me to expect a fair wait till I could be seen.

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.

When the cut diamond is fixed in the dop, and that is adjusted in the tongs, the stone is placed upon the skive, which, being set in motion, if the diamond be examined in the course of from ten to fifteen minutes time, the facet will appear to have lost a part of the gray colour it had obtained from the process of cutting, and a brilliant lustre or polish will begin to appear, which is solely produced from the imbedded powder with which the surface of the skive is charged.

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.

The angle and the depth of skives should be specified.