Definition of Slivery

1. Adjective. Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points. "A rough splintery floor of old pine boards"

Exact synonyms: Splintery
Partainyms: Sliver, Splinter
Derivative terms: Sliver, Sliver, Splinter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slivery

slitters
slittier
slittiest
slitting
slitty
slive
slived
sliven
sliver
slivered
sliverer
sliverers
slivering
sliverlike
slivers
slivery (current term)
slives
sliving
slivovic
slivovices
slivovitz
slivovitzes
slo-mo
sloakan
sloam
sloams
sloan
sloans
sloat
sloats

Literary usage of Slivery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Country School in New England by Clifton Johnson (1893)
"The little yard was hemmed in on three sides by a high and slivery board fence. ... The slivery board fence withstood the ravages of time and the boys much ..."

2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Christmas Ba'ing, Skinner's Misc. Pod. p. 124. In Edit. 1805, slavery occurs instead of slivery. Teut. saec/il, mollis, mitis, lentus. ..."

3. Went to Kansas: Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-fated Expedition to that by Miriam Davis Colt (1862)
"... of "shakes," doubled and trebled, they being j nst long enough to lap from beam to beam, which from their slivery sides and warping propensity, ..."

4. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"It »is in these words : L That the interference by the citizens of any of the States, with the view to the abolition of slivery in this District, ..."

5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1908)
"Head with the large prominent eyes much wider than the thorax, very finely and densely rugulose, front densely clothed with short slivery white recumbent ..."

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