skintight (skint it)

Fitting like the skin; as tight as the skin; pre ing close on the skin; glove-tight. Pink skin - tight breeches met his high patent-leather boots at the knee. T. C. Crawford , English Life, p. 91. skintling (skint'ling), adv . [Appar.for *squint ling , squint + -ling2 .] At an angle. [Colloq.] When dry [the bricks] are carried in wheel-barrows and set skintling , or at angles acro each other, to allow the heat to pa between them in the down-draught kilns. Science, XIII. 335.