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noun

Sliver n.

A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment, as of glass; a splinter.

A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.

pl. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings. (Local, U.S.)

verb

sliver v. t. (past & past part. slivered; pres. part. slivering) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. "They 'll sliver thee like a turnip."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sliver" Quotes from Famous Books

... your both feet out of the sturrups and reach around and bite you in the small of the back so quick that the boys would be pulling his front hoofs out of your frame before you'd realize that the canter had begun. Nice horse, Buck. He like to eat Jonesy up one morning before Sliver and me could get to the corral. Lord! The sounds made my blood run cold! Old Buck squealing like a boar-pig in a wolf trap, and Jonesy yelling, 'Help! Murder! Police!' Even that did not cure Jones from ...

— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips

... As far along the track as the Arch, each railroad tie (or sleeper) had for him a personality: the fat, white tie, which oozed at the end into an awkward knob, he had always hated because it resembled a flattened grub; a new tamarack tie with a sliver of fresh bark still on it, recently put in by the section gang, was an entertaining stranger; and he particularly introduced Gertie to his favorite, a wine-colored tie which ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... as thin as a sliver, and he whined like a Moose-hide cur; So Clancy clothed him and nursed him as a mother nurses a child; Lifted him on the toboggan, wrapped him in robes of fur, Then with the dogs sore straining started ...

— Ballads of a Cheechako • Robert W. Service

... gravy. Now and then George gave it a twirl so that none of its sides might have reason to complain at not receiving its share of the heat. The lower end roasted first, seeing which, George took the goose off, reversed it and set it twirling again. After a time he sharpened a sliver of wood, stuck it into the goose and examined ...

— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace

... quantity equals not one of yours. See how this river comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out. I'll have the current in this place damn'd up; And here the smug and sliver Trent shall run In a new channel, fair and evenly: It shall not wind with such a deep indent, To rob me of so rich a ...

— King Henry IV, The First Part • William Shakespeare [Hudson edition]

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