Sliver
['slɪvə;'slaɪ-] or ['slɪvɚ]
Definition
(verb.) form into slivers; 'sliver wood'.
(verb.) divide into slivers or splinters.
Checker: Lucy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
(n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
Typed by Brooke
Definition
v.t. to split to tear off lengthwise to slice.—n. a piece cut or rent off a slice: a continuous strand of loose untwisted wool or other fibre.—v.i. Slive to slide skulk.
Inputed by Evelyn
Examples
- He cut off a thin sliver of the surface that had dirtied in his pocket, then cut a thick slice. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- How he should like to have more of those little death-dealing slivers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- No, there was something mysterious connected with these tiny slivers of wood which could bring death by a mere scratch. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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