To skewer, impale.
A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
One who uses a skive (or skives).
An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
A slacker.
A skewer.
To study with effort or determination (object of study indicated by "up on").
Work.
By extension, analogous to boffin, nerd, smart aleck. Often pejorative.
One who swots.
Vigorous study at an educational institution.