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skiv

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Noun

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skiv (plural skivs)

  1. (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 [sic] away vith it.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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