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English
Noun
skiv (plural skivs)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A sovereign (the coin).
1865, Edmund Yates, Running the Gauntlet:'A sovereign,' she says. 'Make it two, and it's yours,' I says. So, after a little, she give me two skivs, and she took the bill and valked away vith it.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary