1) Cut leather 2) Pare leather 3) Remove the surface of 4) Shave 1) Shirk 
to pare or split leather
• (v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather). • (n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
The act of avoiding one
Skive noun [ Confer Icelandic skīfa a shaving, slice, English shive , sheave .] The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem. Skive transitive verb To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather). 
Skive is slang for to evade doing ones task or duty.
[v] - remove the surface of
To skive is to evade something. When I was a kid we used to skive off school on Wednesdays instead of doing sports. We always got caught of course, presumably because the teachers used to do the same when they were fourteen!
Operation in manufacture where edges of leather are trimmed down so that the edge is thinner than the body of the leather, thus reducing the thickness of seams.