Definition of Slivers

1. Noun. (plural of sliver) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of sliver) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slivers

1. sliver [v] - See also: sliver

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slivers

slitter
slitters
slittier
slittiest
slitting
slitty
slive
slived
sliven
sliver
slivered
sliverer
sliverers
slivering
sliverlike
slivers (current term)
slivery
slives
sliving
slivovic
slivovices
slivovitz
slivovitzes
slo-mo
sloakan
sloam
sloams
sloan
sloans
sloat

Literary usage of Slivers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1872)
"In order to ensure the drawing rollers being always supplied with the full number of six slivers, each of the slivers fed up to the rollers is passed over a ..."

2. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"slivers or scale, first rolled into the surface, and then torn out, ... slivers: slivers are due to defective teeming of the molten steel and to a tearing ..."

3. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"slivers or scale, first rolled into the surface, and then torn out, ... slivers: slivers are due to defective teeming of the molten steel and to a tearing ..."

4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1854)
"The results attained are consequent on the so feeding the slivers into a carding and condensing- engine, that each sliver is separated from its neighbours, ..."

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