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sliver (n.)

"splinter of wood," late 14c., from obsolete verb sliven "to split, cleave," from Old English toslifan "to split, cleave" (see sleave).

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sleave (v.)
"to separate or divide" (threads, strands, fibers), Old English -slæfan, from stem of -slifan "to separate, split, cleave," from Proto-Germanic *slifanan, perhaps related to the root of slip (v.). Compare German Schleife "a loop, knot, noose." Related: Sleaved; sleaving. As a noun, "knotted, tangled silk or thread," 1590s, from the verb; this is the word in Shakespeare's rauel'd Sleeue of Care ("Macbeth").

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Definitions of sliver
1
sliver (v.)
divide into slivers or splinters;
Synonyms: splinter
sliver (v.)
break up into splinters or slivers;
Synonyms: splinter
sliver (v.)
form into slivers;
sliver wood
2
sliver (n.)
a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal;
it broke into slivers
Synonyms: splinter
sliver (n.)
a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something;
Synonyms: paring / shaving
From wordnet.princeton.edu

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