sliver

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   form into slivers

   sliver wood

2. 2
   noun

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

   This is the tasting ritual, the lay Eucharist of cheese. The buyer squeezes the sliver of cheese between his fingers to test its consistency, sniffs it, and then tastes it as delicately as if it were the most subtle caviar.

3. 3
   verb

   To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit.

   to sliver wood

4. 4
   noun

   a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

5. 5
   noun

   a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal

6. 6
   verb

   break up into splinters or slivers

7. 7
   verb

   divide into slivers or splinters

8. 8
   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.

Etymology

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