skiv
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 [sic] away vith it.
- 1865, Edmund Yates, Running the Gauntlet
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary