skiver vs table knife

skiver

noun
  • The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins. 

  • A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school. 

  • 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. 

table knife

noun
  • A type of knife used to cut cooked and prepared food, with a single moderately sharp edge. 

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