Definition of "skiving" []

• Present participle of skive. (verb)
• A piece made in skiving (the paring or splitting of leather), especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side. (noun)

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• "Ms. Neithardt and a second instructor, Emily Putterman, who has taught shoemaking at Pratt Institute and the Fashion Institute of Technology, among other places, had led the students through the cobbler's steps: taping their lasts -- the forms upon which shoes are made -- to make a pattern molding; and "skiving" -- that is, planing or shaving -- the inner sole, which was fashioned from two kinds of leather and a steel shank."
• "Trophy Bonded bullets have had an enviable reputation as premium projectiles for the past quarter century, but now Federal has greatly improved them by adding a polymer tip, replacing the flat base with a boattail, adding exterior skiving (fracture lines) for improved expansion, and plating both the bullet and the case in nickel, which reduces fouling and eliminates case corrosion."
• "From there is progressed from trash duty to organizing the leather, soon moving on to cutting and skiving, and over the course of two and a half years, he became a full fledged apprentice, learning how to make his own shoes."