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Sliver   /slˈɪvər/   Listen
Sliver

noun
1.
A small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal.  Synonym: splinter.  "It broke into slivers"
2.
A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.  Synonyms: paring, shaving.
verb
(past & past part. slivered; pres. part. slivering)
1.
Divide into slivers or splinters.  Synonym: splinter.
2.
Break up into splinters or slivers.  Synonym: splinter.
3.
Form into slivers.



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"Sliver" Quotes from Famous Books



... fix you're gettin' in," said Skipper Zeb. Drawing a pipe and a plug of black tobacco and a jack-knife from his pocket, he shaved some of the plug into the palm of his left hand, rolled it between his palms, and filled the pipe. Then, with some deliberation, he selected a long, slender sliver from the wood box, ignited it at the stove, lighted his pipe and carefully ...
— Left on the Labrador - A Tale of Adventure Down North • Dillon Wallace

... to the village. Behind them, against the dusk, glowed the red, last signals of the dying fires: tree-trunks upraised like smouldering torches, the timbers of the falling buildings tumbling from their props and sending up showers of sparks. A pale sliver of new moon made the red of the fires even more baleful, and the two who rode together looked back and felt the obsession of something they had ...
— The Ramrodders - A Novel • Holman Day

... bananas first, and then the pineapple, which we cut with a sliver of basalt,—we were in the stone age, as her tribe was when the whites came,—and last the oranges. She made cups of leaves and filled them with water, and into them we squeezed the ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... from which it has come. It is then "passed through the willow, the scuthing machine, and the spreading machine, in order to be opened, cleaned, and evenly spread. By the carding engine the fibres are combed out, and laid parallel to each other, and the fleece is compressed into sliver. The sliver is repeatedly drawn and doubled in the drawing frame, more perfectly to strengthen the fibres and to equalize the grist. The roving frame, by rollers and spindles, produces a coarse loose ...
— Rides on Railways • Samuel Sidney

... Oakland Estuary, which prior to the great war was the graveyard of Pacific Coast shipping, and say with great pride: "Well, we've done a good job on this craft, boys; she'll never end in Rotten Row! Every sliver in her is air-dried and seasoned. That's the stuff! Build 'em of unseasoned material and dry rot develops the first year; in five years they're punk inside, and then—some fine day they're posted as missing at Lloyd's. Did you ever see a Blue Star ship lying ...
— Cappy Ricks Retires • Peter B. Kyne


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