Lexic.us

Definition of Sliver

1. Noun. A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal. "It broke into slivers"

2. Verb. Divide into slivers or splinters. "The wooden sticks sliver "

3. Noun. A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.

4. Verb. Break up into splinters or slivers. ; "The wood splintered"

5. Verb. Form into slivers. "Sliver wood"

Definition of Sliver

1. 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.

2. n. A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.

Definition of Sliver

1. Noun. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. ¹

2. Noun. 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 precedes spinning. ¹

3. Noun. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings. ¹

4. Noun. (US New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sliver

1. to cut into long, thin pieces [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Sliver

1. 1. A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter. 2. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fibre in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning. 3. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings. 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." (Sir W. Scott) Origin: See Slive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sliver

slitlike slitmask slitmasks slits slitted slitten slitter slitters slittier slittiest

slitting slitty slive slived sliven sliver (current term) slivered sliverer sliverers slivering

sliverlike slivers slivery slives sliving slivovic slivovices slivovitz slivovitzes slo-mo

Literary usage of Sliver

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

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"sliver—contd. 1875 A snag that would snatch the keelson out of this steamboat as neatly as if it were a sliver in your hand.—Mark Twain, ' Old Times,' ..."

2. United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of by United States, John Allan Mallory (1917)
"Cotton waste and flocks, manufactured or otherwise advanced in value, cotton card laps, roping, sliver, or roving, 5 per centum ad valorem. ..."

3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"But in the event of the sliver breaking or running out, the tail of the ... After the sliver run out has been renewed or the broken sliver joined up by the ..."

4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1847)
"329, into a single riband or spongy sliver; which is immediate!; carried oil' with equable velocity by two smooth cast-iron rollers, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"When the sliver lap machine furnishes laps for the comber, ... The more general practice is to pass sliver laps to a ribbon iaf> machine, at the back of ..."

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