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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  • 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.
  • Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. kibblings.
  • New York A narrow high-rise apartment building.

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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.

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