Vocabulary : Skittle-dog to Skolezite
Skittle-dog : The piked dogfish.Skittles : An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Skitty : A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen.
Skive : The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem. ;; To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
Skiver : An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc. ;; The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.
