skiver vs waster

skiver

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • To skewer, impale. 

waster

noun
  • Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly. 

  • A destroyer. 

  • An item that is spoiled during its manufacture. 

  • An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste. 

How often have the words skiver and waster occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )