sliver

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[edit] Etymology

Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (to cut, cleave, split), from Old English -slīfan (as in tōslīfan (to split, split up)).

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sliver (plural slivers)

  1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  2. 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.
  3. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
  4. (New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

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sliver (third-person singular simple present slivers, present participle slivering, simple past and past participle slivered)

  1. (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.

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