slivern.¹

Brit.

/ˈslɪvə/,

/ˈslʌɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈslɪvər/,

/ˈslaɪvər/

Forms: Middle English slivere, sleyvere, 1500s sleuer, slyuer, 1500s–1700s sliuer, 1500s– sliver (1800s dialect slivver).

Etymology: < slive v.¹

a. A piece cut or split off; a long thin piece or slip; a splinter, shiver, slice. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > cut or split off

spoonc725

spillc1300

sliverc1374

splinter1398

sprotea1400

speelc1440

spelkc1440

splinderc1440

spilderc1475

spalea1500

spelcha1605

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount

shredc1000

farthingsworthc1325

pennyworthc1330

incha1350

sliverc1374

chipa1393

gnastc1440

Jack1530

spoonful1531

crumba1535

spark1548

slight1549

pin's worth1562

scruple1574

thought1581

pinch1583

scrap1583

splinter1609

ticket1634

notchet1637

indivisible1644

tinyc1650

twopence1691

turn of the scale(s)1706

enough to swear by1756

touch1786

scrimptiona1825

infinitesimal1840

smidgen1841

snuff1842

fluxion1846

smitchel1856

eyelash1860

smidge1866

tenpenceworth1896

whisker1913

tidge1986

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > narrow piece

sliverc1374

lista1398

labelc1425

reeve1726

stripe1785

slip1825

finger1839

striplet1839

slither1919

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1013 Allas, that he, al hool, or of him slivere, Shuld have his refut in so digne a place.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xvi. 42 Ther spers brake to ther handes, so that y^e sleuers flew a hye in y^e ayer.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 308 Which marreth their beakes, so as it is enforced to fall away in sliuers and peeces.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 44 What they can bring us now..that can cut Tacitus into slivers and steaks, we shall presently hear.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 45 A small sliver of Iron.

1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. iv. vii. 168 They were wont to cut them [tortoise shells] into certain Slivers, and to cover their Tables or Beds with them.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiii. 129 When it is cold, it will cut in Sl [i] vers as Dutch beef.

1811 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) III. 353 A sliver of the wood run a third of an inch between my nail and flesh.

1874 Mrs. Jay Holden with Cords 454 A delicate and difficult surgical operation, to remove pus, sliver of bone, or other foreign matter.

1967 T. Kinsella Nightwalker i. 5 Bone-splinters, silvery slivers of screams.

1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends iii. vi. 327 People on buses and on the streets of Boston traded slivers of information as if they were coins.

b. Applied to parts of trees or plants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > [noun] > piece or sliver

sliver1604

the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip

planteOE

plantingeOE

quickwoodc1383

graffa1393

sarmenta1398

slivingc1400

springc1400

clavec1420

sleavingc1440

talionc1440

quick1456

quicking1469

graft1483

quickset1484

slip1495

setlingc1503

set1513

pitchset1519

slaving?1523

truncheon1572

stallon1587

crosset1600

marquot1600

sliver1604

secta1616

offset1629

slipping1638

side-slip1651

slift1657

cutting1691

pitcher1707

mallet-shoot1745

root cutting1784

stowing1788

stool1789

pitch1808

heel1822

cutling1834

piping1851

cutback1897

stump plant1953

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 145 An enuious sliuer broke, When downe her weedy trophies and her selfe Fell in the weeping Brooke.

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xii. §89 Onyon, Garlick, and Leek, and these bulbous herbs have slivers instead of leavs.

1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 81 A maze of shrubs, Whose emerald slivers fringed the rugged way.

c. U.S. The side of a small fish sliced off in one piece for use as bait.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > fish used as bait

minnow1615

shrimp1856

squida1862

sliver1869

fion1875

snade1901

1869 Maine Acts & Resolves 24 Any pumice, scraps or other offal arising from the making of oil or slivers for bait.

1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 201 The slivers (pronounced slyvers) are salted and packed in barrels.

2. A continuous ribbon or band of loose, untwisted, parallelized fibres of wool, cotton, flax, or other textile material, ready for drawing, roving, or slubbing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > ribbon or band of loose fibres

sliver1703

card end1832

ribbon1842

1703 Overseers' Accts. Wakes Colne (Essex) (Essex Rec. Office: D/P/88/12/1) Paid for woollen sliuers to wrap him in, £0. 0. 8.

1738 L. Paul Brit. Patent 562 2 A strict regard must be had to make the slivers of an equal thickness from end to end.

1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 225 It produces..a sliver more compact than the old wools of either the Leicester or the Lincoln district.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. iv. 64 After passing through the second pair of rollers, the reduced sliver is attached to a spindle and fly.

1894 Times 12 Mar. 13/5 The ordinary tow sliver..is fed into the machine.

attributive.1864 Catal. Mill Furnishings (Riddel & Co.) Sliver Cans.1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2213/2 Sliver-box.1891 R. Marsden Cotton Spinning (ed. 4) 129 The sliver cans being taken and placed at the back.

3. In various technical uses: (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1842 Archaeologia 29 271 (note) The little wooden instruments called slivers used in yarn spinning in the West of England.

b.1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 287 Sliver, in shipbuilding, any thin piece of wood used as a filling.1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 820 Wedges..called slivers or slices, by which means the ship's weight is brought upon the ‘launch’ or cradle.c.1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 48 Sliver, a thin lath, placed within two grooves, cut lengthways for the purpose, in the edges of two planks intended to be joined together, for the purpose of making the joint airtight.1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 227 Slivers, strips of wood or iron fitted in between the edges of boards in wooden bratticing, to make the joints air-tight.

4. A slashing cut or stroke.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > a cut or incision

garse?c1225

chinea1387

slit1398

incisionc1400

slivingc1400

raising?a1425

scotchc1450

racec1500

tranchec1500

kerf?1523

hack1555

slash1580

hew1596

raze1596

incutting1598

slisha1616

scar1653

lancementa1655

slap1688

slip1688

nick1692

streak1725

sneck1768

snick1775

rut1785

sliver1806

overcut1874

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant

lashc1330

lashingc1400

jerking1552

jerk1555

whipping1577

slive1589

whissc1590

scutch1611

scutching1611

switchinga1640

cut1787

sliver1806

switch1809

welt1863

score1882

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 61 Becoming so tired of your own timidity in paring the paper too little, as to spoil all by one rash sliver.

1897 L. J. Trotter Life J. Nicholson xx. 249 Nicholson..clove him..literally in two. ‘Not a bad sliver that!’ he remarked.

Compounds

sliver-edge n. a very fine edge on a piece of timber.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > edge of

sliver-edge1874

1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 57 An efficient caulk not being obtainable when the deck plank snapes off to a ‘sliver edge’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

slivern.²

Brit.

/ˈslɪvə/,

/ˈslʌɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈslɪvər/,

/ˈslaɪvər/

Etymology: < slive v.²

Now dialect.

†1. plural. (Meaning doubtful.) Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 373 A pair of Buffins with the slyuers to the same, one doblat of white bombasyne.

2. dialect. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > overall > types of

sliver1847

crawler1891

paddlers1928

dungarees1930

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Sliver,..a short slop worn by bankers or navigators. Linc[oln].

1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Sliver, a workman's linen jacket, a short blowse.

1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 54 A sliver was an over-all, an' they was made o' Drabette an' Cantoon.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

sliverv.

Brit.

/ˈslɪvə/,

/ˈslʌɪvə/, U.S.

/ˈslɪvər/,

/ˈslaɪvər/

Forms: Also 1600s sliuer.

Etymology: < sliver n.¹

a. transitive. To separate or remove as a sliver; to cut, split, or tear into slivers.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure

to-slita1250

rivea1400

slatterc1400

chapc1460

chip1508

gaig1584

spleet1585

split1595

chink1599

chawn1602

slent1605

slat1607

sliver1608

speld1616

crevice1624

checka1642

chicka1642

crack1664

splice1664

sleave-

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off > in slivers or chips

chip?c1400

sliver1608

flake1661

spall1841

splinter1871

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] > cut into pieces > into strips or shreds

shredc1386

sliver1608

strip1885

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 34 She that her selfe will sliuer and disbranch From her materiall sap, perforce must wither.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 28 Slippes of Yew, Sliuer'd in the Moones Ecclipse.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xxv. 282 They sang aloud, good Lord de-liver us, And suffer not this Don to sliver us.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Sliver, to cut into Slivers, or thin Slices.

1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 882 People delight to sliver lettuces into bowls.

1845 S. Judd Margaret i. iii. 12 The floor of the room was warped in every direction, slivered and gaping at the joints.

1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 213 Down with the other ten or I'll sliver you.

b. intransitive. To split, or split off.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > break off > split off

chinec1300

to flaw off1665

spall1853

sliver1880

1880 Scribner's Monthly May 79/1 The planks being cut across the grain to prevent slivering.

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 64 The splinter slivered free.

2. transitive. To convert (textile fibres) into slivers (see sliver n.¹ 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > other

dizen1530

dize1673

scutch1733

sliver1796

batch1880

woollenize1890

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 543 Machinery to sliver, rove, and spin flax and hemp into thread.

1805 Ann. Reg. 848 Improvements in slivering and preparing hemp, flax [etc.].

Derivatives

ˈslivering n. also attributive, as slivering-knife, slivering-machine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [noun] > cutting into strips or slivers

randing1725

slivering1875

stripping1885

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2214/1 Slivering-machine (Wood-working), a machine for cutting splints, slivers, or shreds of wood for various purposes.

1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 147 The operation of slivering is shown.

1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 201 The knife used is of peculiar shape, and is called a ‘slivering knife’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹c1374

n.²1572

v.1608

单词	sliver
释义	slivern.¹ Brit. /ˈslɪvə/, /ˈslʌɪvə/, U.S. /ˈslɪvər/, /ˈslaɪvər/ Forms: Middle English slivere, sleyvere, 1500s sleuer, slyuer, 1500s–1700s sliuer, 1500s– sliver (1800s dialect slivver). Etymology: < slive v.¹ 1. a. A piece cut or split off; a long thin piece or slip; a splinter, shiver, slice. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being long in relation to breadth > [noun] > long narrow piece > cut or split off spoonc725 spillc1300 sliverc1374 splinter1398 sprotea1400 speelc1440 spelkc1440 splinderc1440 spilderc1475 spalea1500 spelcha1605 the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount shredc1000 farthingsworthc1325 pennyworthc1330 incha1350 sliverc1374 chipa1393 gnastc1440 Jack1530 spoonful1531 crumba1535 spark1548 slight1549 pin's worth1562 scruple1574 thought1581 pinch1583 scrap1583 splinter1609 ticket1634 notchet1637 indivisible1644 tinyc1650 twopence1691 turn of the scale(s)1706 enough to swear by1756 touch1786 scrimptiona1825 infinitesimal1840 smidgen1841 snuff1842 fluxion1846 smitchel1856 eyelash1860 smidge1866 tenpenceworth1896 whisker1913 tidge1986 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > narrow piece sliverc1374 lista1398 labelc1425 reeve1726 stripe1785 slip1825 finger1839 striplet1839 slither1919 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 1013 Allas, that he, al hool, or of him slivere, Shuld have his refut in so digne a place. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xvi. 42 Ther spers brake to ther handes, so that y^e sleuers flew a hye in y^e ayer. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 308 Which marreth their beakes, so as it is enforced to fall away in sliuers and peeces. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 44 What they can bring us now..that can cut Tacitus into slivers and steaks, we shall presently hear. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 45 A small sliver of Iron. 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. iv. vii. 168 They were wont to cut them [tortoise shells] into certain Slivers, and to cover their Tables or Beds with them. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xiii. 129 When it is cold, it will cut in Sl [i] vers as Dutch beef. 1811 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) III. 353 A sliver of the wood run a third of an inch between my nail and flesh. 1874 Mrs. Jay Holden with Cords 454 A delicate and difficult surgical operation, to remove pus, sliver of bone, or other foreign matter. 1967 T. Kinsella Nightwalker i. 5 Bone-splinters, silvery slivers of screams. 1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends iii. vi. 327 People on buses and on the streets of Boston traded slivers of information as if they were coins. b. Applied to parts of trees or plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > [noun] > piece or sliver sliver1604 the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > by cuttings > cutting or slip planteOE plantingeOE quickwoodc1383 graffa1393 sarmenta1398 slivingc1400 springc1400 clavec1420 sleavingc1440 talionc1440 quick1456 quicking1469 graft1483 quickset1484 slip1495 setlingc1503 set1513 pitchset1519 slaving?1523 truncheon1572 stallon1587 crosset1600 marquot1600 sliver1604 secta1616 offset1629 slipping1638 side-slip1651 slift1657 cutting1691 pitcher1707 mallet-shoot1745 root cutting1784 stowing1788 stool1789 pitch1808 heel1822 cutling1834 piping1851 cutback1897 stump plant1953 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. vii. 145 An enuious sliuer broke, When downe her weedy trophies and her selfe Fell in the weeping Brooke. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xii. §89 Onyon, Garlick, and Leek, and these bulbous herbs have slivers instead of leavs. 1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 81 A maze of shrubs, Whose emerald slivers fringed the rugged way. c. U.S. The side of a small fish sliced off in one piece for use as bait. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > fish used as bait minnow1615 shrimp1856 squida1862 sliver1869 fion1875 snade1901 1869 Maine Acts & Resolves 24 Any pumice, scraps or other offal arising from the making of oil or slivers for bait. 1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 201 The slivers (pronounced slyvers) are salted and packed in barrels. 2. A continuous ribbon or band of loose, untwisted, parallelized fibres of wool, cotton, flax, or other textile material, ready for drawing, roving, or slubbing. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > ribbon or band of loose fibres sliver1703 card end1832 ribbon1842 1703 Overseers' Accts. Wakes Colne (Essex) (Essex Rec. Office: D/P/88/12/1) Paid for woollen sliuers to wrap him in, £0. 0. 8. 1738 L. Paul Brit. Patent 562 2 A strict regard must be had to make the slivers of an equal thickness from end to end. 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 225 It produces..a sliver more compact than the old wools of either the Leicester or the Lincoln district. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. iv. 64 After passing through the second pair of rollers, the reduced sliver is attached to a spindle and fly. 1894 Times 12 Mar. 13/5 The ordinary tow sliver..is fed into the machine. attributive.1864 Catal. Mill Furnishings (Riddel & Co.) Sliver Cans.1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2213/2 Sliver-box.1891 R. Marsden Cotton Spinning (ed. 4) 129 The sliver cans being taken and placed at the back. 3. In various technical uses: (see quots.). ΚΠ a. 1842 Archaeologia 29 271 (note) The little wooden instruments called slivers used in yarn spinning in the West of England. b.1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 287 Sliver, in shipbuilding, any thin piece of wood used as a filling.1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 820 Wedges..called slivers or slices, by which means the ship's weight is brought upon the ‘launch’ or cradle.c.1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 48 Sliver, a thin lath, placed within two grooves, cut lengthways for the purpose, in the edges of two planks intended to be joined together, for the purpose of making the joint airtight.1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 227 Slivers, strips of wood or iron fitted in between the edges of boards in wooden bratticing, to make the joints air-tight. 4. A slashing cut or stroke. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > a cut or incision garse?c1225 chinea1387 slit1398 incisionc1400 slivingc1400 raising?a1425 scotchc1450 racec1500 tranchec1500 kerf?1523 hack1555 slash1580 hew1596 raze1596 incutting1598 slisha1616 scar1653 lancementa1655 slap1688 slip1688 nick1692 streak1725 sneck1768 snick1775 rut1785 sliver1806 overcut1874 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific thing > [noun] > blow struck with an object or instrument > with something pliant lashc1330 lashingc1400 jerking1552 jerk1555 whipping1577 slive1589 whissc1590 scutch1611 scutching1611 switchinga1640 cut1787 sliver1806 switch1809 welt1863 score1882 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. iii. 61 Becoming so tired of your own timidity in paring the paper too little, as to spoil all by one rash sliver. 1897 L. J. Trotter Life J. Nicholson xx. 249 Nicholson..clove him..literally in two. ‘Not a bad sliver that!’ he remarked. Compounds sliver-edge n. a very fine edge on a piece of timber. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank > edge of sliver-edge1874 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 57 An efficient caulk not being obtainable when the deck plank snapes off to a ‘sliver edge’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). slivern.² Brit. /ˈslɪvə/, /ˈslʌɪvə/, U.S. /ˈslɪvər/, /ˈslaɪvər/ Etymology: < slive v.² Now dialect. †1. plural. (Meaning doubtful.) Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1572 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 373 A pair of Buffins with the slyuers to the same, one doblat of white bombasyne. 2. dialect. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > overall > types of sliver1847 crawler1891 paddlers1928 dungarees1930 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Sliver,..a short slop worn by bankers or navigators. Linc[oln]. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Sliver, a workman's linen jacket, a short blowse. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 54 A sliver was an over-all, an' they was made o' Drabette an' Cantoon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). sliverv. Brit. /ˈslɪvə/, /ˈslʌɪvə/, U.S. /ˈslɪvər/, /ˈslaɪvər/ Forms: Also 1600s sliuer. Etymology: < sliver n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To separate or remove as a sliver; to cut, split, or tear into slivers. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure to-slita1250 rivea1400 slatterc1400 chapc1460 chip1508 gaig1584 spleet1585 split1595 chink1599 chawn1602 slent1605 slat1607 sliver1608 speld1616 crevice1624 checka1642 chicka1642 crack1664 splice1664 sleave- the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > detach [verb (transitive)] > break off > in slivers or chips chip?c1400 sliver1608 flake1661 spall1841 splinter1871 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > divide by cutting [verb (transitive)] > cut into pieces > into strips or shreds shredc1386 sliver1608 strip1885 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 34 She that her selfe will sliuer and disbranch From her materiall sap, perforce must wither. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 28 Slippes of Yew, Sliuer'd in the Moones Ecclipse. View more context for this quotation 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xxv. 282 They sang aloud, good Lord de-liver us, And suffer not this Don to sliver us. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Sliver, to cut into Slivers, or thin Slices. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 882 People delight to sliver lettuces into bowls. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. iii. 12 The floor of the room was warped in every direction, slivered and gaping at the joints. 1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 213 Down with the other ten or I'll sliver you. b. intransitive. To split, or split off. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > become detached [verb (intransitive)] > break off > split off chinec1300 to flaw off1665 spall1853 sliver1880 1880 Scribner's Monthly May 79/1 The planks being cut across the grain to prevent slivering. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 64 The splinter slivered free. 2. transitive. To convert (textile fibres) into slivers (see sliver n.¹ 2). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [verb (transitive)] > other dizen1530 dize1673 scutch1733 sliver1796 batch1880 woollenize1890 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 543 Machinery to sliver, rove, and spin flax and hemp into thread. 1805 Ann. Reg. 848 Improvements in slivering and preparing hemp, flax [etc.]. Derivatives ˈslivering n. also attributive, as slivering-knife, slivering-machine. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [noun] > cutting into strips or slivers randing1725 slivering1875 stripping1885 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2214/1 Slivering-machine (Wood-working), a machine for cutting splints, slivers, or shreds of wood for various purposes. 1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 147 The operation of slivering is shown. 1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 201 The knife used is of peculiar shape, and is called a ‘slivering knife’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1374n.²1572v.1608
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